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Researchers at Work
Interdisciplinary research on the internet and digital media. 556 items.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #SocialMediationAsGenderedJusticeDetails of a session proposed by Esther Anne Victoria Moraes and Manasa Priya Vasudevan for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #PowerListingDetails of a session proposed by Dr. Shubhda Arora, Dr. Smitana Saikia, Prof. Nidhi Kalra, and Prof. Ravikant Kisana for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #LoSHAandWhatFollowedDetails of a session proposed by Anannya Chatterjee, Arunima Singh, Bhanu Priya Gupta, Renu Singh, and Rhea Bose for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #ListsAsDatabaseDetails of a session proposed by Ria De and Samata Biswas for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #ListInterfaceDetails of a session proposed by Bharath Sivakumar, Rakshita Siva, and Deepak Prince for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #LegitLists - Form follows function: List by designDetails of a session proposed by Akriti Rastogi, Ishani Dey, and Sagorika Singha for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #FOMODetails of a session proposed by Pritha Chakrabarti and Dr. Baidurya Chakrabarti for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #EnlistingPrivacyDetails of a session proposed by Pawan Singh and Pranjal Jain for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #DigitalPlatformAttributesDetails of a session proposed by Nandakishore K N and Dr. V. Sridhar for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #CallingOutAndInDetails of a session proposed by Usha Raman, Radhika Gajjala, Riddhima Sharma, Tarishi Varma, Pallavi Guha, Sai Amulya Komarraju, and Sugandha Sehgal for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #ButItIsNotFunnyDetails of a session proposed by Madhavi Shivaprasad and Sonali Sahoo for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #AyushmanBhavahDetails of a session proposed by Arya Lakshmi and Adrij Chakraborty for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - List of Proposed SessionsHere is the list of sessions proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
11 Nov 2018
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Digital Native: One Selfie Does a Tragedy MakeThe great find of this century – life’s worth just a selfie. Channeling the inner narcissus is now human hamartia.
1 Nov 2018
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Digital Native: Time to Walk the Talk#MeToo has turned victims into survivors, but social media remains an unsafe space.
1 Nov 2018
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Digital Native: Hashtag FatigueIt is easy to hijack hashtags by coupling them with others. It is equally easy to make hashtags die.
2 Oct 2018
News
Plenary Talk at Jyothi Nivas College Research SymposiumI gave a plenary presentation on new reading and writing practices in the digital context, and emerging questions for digital humanities and literary studies at a research symposium organised by Jyothi Nivas College, Post Graduate Centre, …
1 Oct 2018
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): List - Call for SessionsWho makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate …
30 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: Hardly Friends Like ThatIndividual effort is far from enough to fool Facebook’s grouping algorithm.
23 Sep 2018
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The Right Words for LoveQueer love is legal. Which means that all of us are finally free to find a language that can match our desires.
9 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: #MemeTooAn old meme shows the need for emotional literacy in our digitally saturated age. Memes, like regrettable exes, have the habit of resurfacing at regular periods.
6 Sep 2018
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Essays on 'Offline' - Selected AbstractsIn response to a recent call for essays that explore various dimensions of offline lives, we received 22 abstracts. Out of these, we have selected 10 pieces to be published as part of a series titled 'Offline' on the upcoming r@w blog. …
4 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: Playing GodGoogle’s home assistant can make you feel deceptively God-like as it listens to every command of yours. It is a device that never sleeps, and always listens, waiting for a voice to utter “Ok Google” to jump into life.
4 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: Double SpeakAadhaar’s danger has always been that it opens up individuals to high levels of vulnerability without providing safeguards.
9 Aug 2018
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Call for Essays: OfflineWho is offline, and is it a choice? The global project of bringing people online has spurred several commendable initiatives in expanding access to digital devices, networks, and content, and often contentious ones such as Free Basics / …
29 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018
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Digital Native: How smart cities can make criminals out of denizensPeople download information and share it without knowing about the intellectual property rights. On social media bullying, harassment and hate speech find easy avenues.
1 Jul 2018
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Digital Native: The bigger pictureFor all our sleek machines, we are slaves to the much larger Internet of Things.
26 Jun 2018
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Digital Native: Cause an EffectAadhaar is a self-contained safe system, its interaction with other data and information systems is also equally safe and benign.
26 Jun 2018
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Digital Humanities Alliance of India - Inagural Conference 2018 - Keynote by Puthiya Purayil SnehaThe inaugural conference of the Digital Humanities Alliance of India (DHAI) was held at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore on June 1-2, 2018. The event was co-organised by the IIM and the Indian Institute of Technology, …