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Interdisciplinary research on the internet and digital media. 556 items.
1 Oct 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 4 Live Blog: Wendy Chun on FriendsThe Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and …
1 Oct 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 4 Live Blog: Namita A Malhotra on Amateur PornographyThe Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and …
1 Oct 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 4 Live Blog: Closing RemarksThe Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and …
30 Sep 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 4 Live Blog: Finding and Funding the MassesThe Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and …
30 Sep 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 3 Live Blog: Rijuta Mehta on Militant Hindu Nationalist NetworksThe Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and …
30 Sep 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 3 Live Blog: Joshua Neves on Media ArchipelagosThe Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and …
30 Sep 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 3 Live Blog: Eivind Rossaak on Archives in MotionThe Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and …
30 Sep 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 3 Live Blog: Akansha Rastogi's Performance on Exhibition SpaceThe Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and …
28 Sep 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 2 Live Blog: Radhika Gajjala Lectures on e-PhilanthropyThe Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and …
27 Sep 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 2 Live Blog: On Technology and Affective Indian Feminism(s)The Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bengaluru, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multidisciplinary scholars and …
27 Sep 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 2 Live Blog: Deepak Menon on Water in IndiaThe Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bengaluru, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multidisciplinary scholars and …
27 Sep 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 1 Live Blog: PechaKuchaThe Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bengaluru, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multidisciplinary scholars and …
27 Sep 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 1 Live Blog: Globalising Lady GaGaThe Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bengaluru, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multidisciplinary scholars and …
26 Sep 2012
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Habits of Living: Surrogate States, Bodies and Networks, BangaloreThe Centre for Internet & Society is organising the Habits of Living Workshop in Bangalore from September 26 to 29, 2012.
26 Sep 2012
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Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 1 Live Blog: IntroductionThe Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bengaluru from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multidisciplinary scholars and practitioners. The …
17 Sep 2012
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One. Zero.The digital world is the world of twos. All our complex interactions, emotional negotiations, business transactions, social communication and political subscriptions online can be reduced to a string of 1s and 0s, as machines create the …
24 Jul 2012
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Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology and the New LiteraciesNishant Shah was invited to do a book review of a new anthology 'Deconstructing Digital Natives', edited by Michael Thomas. The review was published in Routledge's Journal of Children and Media on July 18, 2012.
19 Jul 2012
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Citizen Activism the Past DecadeCall for Contributions to the ‘Digital Natives with a Cause?’ newsletter, ‘Citizen Activism the Past Decade’. Deadline: August 15, 2012.
18 Jul 2012
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Bangalore Thinkathon Surrogacy: Bodies, States, NetworksThe first workshop of the Habits of Living project will be a Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) focused on the notion of surrogate structures that have become the visible landmarks of contemporary life and will be hosted by the Centre for …
11 Jul 2012
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Revisiting Techno-euphoriaIn my last post, I talked about techno-euphoria as a condition that seems to mark much of our discourse around digital technologies and the promise of the future. The euphoria, as I had suggested, manifests itself either as a utopian view …
11 Jul 2012
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Across BordersA friend and I were at a cafe in Bangalore the other day, when an acquaintance walked in. After the initial niceties, and invitation to join us for coffee, the new person looked at us and asked a question that sounded so archaic and so …
20 Jun 2012
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The Bots That Got Some Votes HomeNilofar Ansher gives us some startling updates on the "Digital Natives Video Contest" voting results declared in May 2012, in this blog post.
11 Jun 2012
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Hyper-connected, Hyper-lonely?The Digital Natives newsletter, part of the 'Digital Natives with a Cause?' project, invites contributions to its April-May 2012 double issue.
28 May 2012
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Digitally AnalogueWhy there is nothing strictly analogue anymore, examines Nishant Shah in this column that he wrote for the Indian Express.
24 May 2012
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We Are All CyborgsThe cyborg reminds us that who we are as human beings is very closely linked with the technologies we use.
4 Apr 2012
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Framing the Digital AlterNativesThey effect social change through social media, place their communities on the global map, and share spiritual connections with the digital world - meet the everyday digital native.
30 Mar 2012
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D:Coding Digital NativesNishant Shah was invited for a public talk at the University of California, Los Angeles. He presented the work done on Digital Natives and spoke about questions of participation and resistance. The talk has been featured in the YouTube …
23 Mar 2012
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Locating the Mobile: An Ethnographic Investigation into Locative Media in Melbourne, Bangalore and ShanghaiFrom Google maps, geoweb, GPS (Global Positioning System), geotagging, Foursquare and Jie Pang, locative media is becoming an integral part of the smartphone (and shanzhai or copy) phenomenon. For a growing generation of users, locative …
23 Mar 2012
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Interface IntimaciesSherry Turkle, in her book Alone Together, talked about how the digital technologies, replacing interface time with face-time, are slowly alienating us from our social networks. There has been an increasing amount of anxiety around how …
23 Mar 2012
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Habits of Living: Global Networks, Local Affects“Networks” have become a defining concept of our epoch. From high-speed financial networks that erode national sovereignty to networking sites like Facebook that transform the meaning of the word “friend,” from blogs that foster new …