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Researchers at Work
Interdisciplinary research on the internet and digital media. 556 items.
4 Jun 2010
News
An Artist's Hunt for Lost StepwellsAs part of the Maps for Making Change project, Kakoli Sen has brought to light some facts which she stumbled upon while mapping the stepwells in Vadodara. She mapped these and also discovered 14 such architectural heritage structures. The …
3 May 2010
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Mapping the Things that Affect Us'Map for making change' is a project using geographical mapping techniques to support struggles for social justice in India
29 Apr 2010
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Their India has No BordersBangalore felt far for them, they would mark it outside the country. India, for migrant labourers, is different from the India we know
26 Apr 2010
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Digital Natives at Republica 2010Nishant Shah from the Centre for Internet and Society, made a presentation at the Re:Publica 2010, in Berlin, about its collaborative project (with Hivos, Netherlands) "Digital Natives with a Cause?" The video for the presentation, along …
1 Apr 2010
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Maps for Making Change Wiki Now Open to the PublicSince December 2009, CIS has been coordinating and nurturing the Maps for Making Change project, organised in collaboration with Tactical Tech. During the past four months, participants have been on a challenging yet fertile and inspiring …
1 Mar 2010
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India Game Developer Summit Bangalore 2010The India Game Developer Conference held at Nimhans Convention Centre on the 27th of February, 2010 was attended by Arun Menon who is working on The Gaming and Gold Project at The Centre for Internet and Society. The Developer forum brought …
25 Feb 2010
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Narrative and Gameplay in Role Playing GamesNot all games tell stories but narratives, gameplay, and their relational attributes are a relevant shift observed in the gaming scene, Arun Menon finds out.
22 Feb 2010
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IT, The City and Public SpaceIn the Introduction to the project, Pratyush Shankar at CEPT, Ahmedabad, lays out the theoretical and practice based frameworks that inform contemporary space-technology discourses in the fields of Architecture and Urban Design. The …
29 Jan 2010
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The Elements of Role Playing GamesThis article, the first in a three part series addresses the definitions of role-playing games (RPGs) and their elements, the integration of elements from other genres facilitating to what might lead to the hybridization of genres and the …
20 Jan 2010
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Gaming and Gold - An IntroductionArun Menon in this first entry, provides a brief description of the area of study and the questions that need to be engaged with in the course of this study.
13 Jan 2010
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Inquilab 2.0? Reflections on Online Activism in India*Research and activism on the Internet in India remain fledgling in spite the media hype, says Anja Kovacs in her blog post that charts online activism in India as it has emerged.
17 Dec 2009
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Re:wiring Bodies: Call for ReviewDr. Asha Achuthan's research project on "Rewiring Bodies" is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. From her vantage position, straddling the disciplines of medicine an Cultural …
10 Dec 2009
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Privacy, pornography, sexuality (a video)The video is an attempt to use the material collected for purposes of provoking a discussion around privacy, pornography, sexuality and technology. It focuses largely on an Indian context, which most viewers would be familiar with. The …
10 Dec 2009
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A provisional definition for the Cultural Last MileIn the first of his entries, Ashish Rajadhyaksha gives his own spin on the 'Last Mile' problem that has been at the crux of all public technologies. Shifting the terms of debate away from broadcast problems of distance and access, he …
2 Dec 2009
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Maps for Making Change Kicks Off, and You Can Get Involved!A first in India, Maps for Making Change explores the use of geographical mapping techniques to support struggles for social justice in India. On 3 December, the project officially kicks off during a one-day workshop in Delhi. But even if …
12 Nov 2009
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Digital Natives with a Cause?Digital Natives With A Cause? - a product of the Hivos-CIS collaboration charts the scholarship and practice of youth and technology with a specific attention for developing countries to create a framework that consolidates existing …
30 Oct 2009
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Call for Applications: 'Maps for Making Change' - Using Geographical Mapping Techniques to Support Struggles for Social Justice in IndiaDeadline: 20 November 2009. Maps for Making Change is a two-month project specifically designed for activists and supporters of social movements and campaigns in India. It provides participants with an exciting opportunity to explore how a …
12 Sep 2009
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Negative of pornThe post deals with what has been written about Savita Bhabhi in an attempt to make sense of her peccadiloes and with the seeming futility of Porn studies located in America to our different reality. I take the liberty of exploring my own …
2 Sep 2009
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Rethinking the last mile Problem: A cultural argumentThis research project, by Ashish Rajadhyaksha from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, is mainly a conceptual-archival investigation into India’s history for what has in recent years come to be known as the ‘last mile’ problem. …
29 Jul 2009
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Alternatives? From situated knowledges to standpoint epistemologyThe previous post explored, in detail, responses to science and technology in feminist and gender work in India. The idea was, more than anything else, to present an 'attitude' to technology, whether manifested in dams or obstetric …
20 Jul 2009
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Rewiring Bodies: Methodologies of Critique - Responses to technology in feminist and gender work in IndiaIn this post, part of her CIS-RAW 'Rewiring Bodies' project, Asha Achuthan records the arguments within feminism and gender work that critique the use of technology in the Indian context, and attempts to show continuities between these …
13 Jul 2009
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Archive and Access: Digitisation and Private Records--The Case of the Regional ArchiveThis is the first in a series of posts by CIS-RAW researcher Aparna Balachandran on the Tamil Nadu Archives (TNA), looking at different aspects of their functioning in order to think about the issue of access in relation to regional …
11 May 2009
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Pleasure and Pornography: Impassioned ObjectsIn this post, a third in the series documenting her CIS-RAW project, Pleasure and Pornography, Namita Malhotra explores the idea of fetish as examined by Anne McClintock (i) . This detour is an exploration of the notion of fetish, its …
5 May 2009
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Transparency and Politics: Politically Aware and Participatory CitizenryIn this, her fourth blog post on her CIS-RAW project, Zainab Bawa looks at the notions of Stakeholder and Participation.
2 May 2009
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Archive and Access: Documents in the Time of DemocracyThis is the seventh in a series of blog posts documenting Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijeet Bhattacharya's CIS-RAW project, Archive and Access. In this entry, Rochelle Pinto introduces a sub-set of posts that will look at …
27 Apr 2009
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Analysing Wikipedia: A First Attempt at ClusteringIn this, their second update on their Analysing Wikipedia project, Kiran Jonnalagadda and Hans Varghese Mathews discuss their first attempt at grouping the various editors of a frequently edited Wikipedia document, each distinguished from …
22 Apr 2009
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Transparency and Politics: Talk by Barun MitraA talk by Barun Mitra, Chairperson of the Liberty Institute, a Delhi-based think tank, was held at CIS recently, organised by Zainab Bawa in relation to her CIS-RAW project on 'Transparency and Politics'. In this post, the third in a series …
18 Apr 2009
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Archive and Access: The Inalienable Right to the Archives - Entering the CapitalThis entry complements the prior discussion by Aparna Balachandran of the Delhi State Archives and its status as a repository of records. Her discussion compares the place of the user and that of the document in the Delhi State Archives as …
18 Apr 2009
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Archive and Access: The Delhi State ArchivesIn this, the fifth entry in a series on the CIS-RAW Archive and Access project, Aparna Balachandran reports on two state archives located in Delhi, the National Archives of India, and the Delhi Archives.
15 Apr 2009
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Postcolonial Hybridity and the ‘Terrors of Technology’ ArgumentIn the last couple of posts, Asha Achuthan has been building towards an understanding of how the anti-technology arguments in India have been posed, in the nationalist and Marxist positions. She goes on, in this sixth post documenting her …