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Researchers at Work
Interdisciplinary research on the internet and digital media. 556 items.
25 Jun 2018
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New Contexts and Sites of Humanities Practice in the Digital (Paper)The ubiquitous presence of the ‘digital’ over the couple of decades has brought with it several important changes in interdisciplinary forms of research and knowledge production. Particularly in the arts and humanities, the role of digital …
1 Jun 2018
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Digital Native: Web of WanderThe idea of travel as a way of expanding our horizon has now been made redundant.
22 Apr 2018
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Digital Native: The e-wasteland of our timesHow digitising isn’t necessarily a fast-track to a sustainable future.
8 Apr 2018
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Digital Native: Delete Facebook?You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
31 Mar 2018
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Making Humanities in the Digital: Embodiment and Framing in Bichitra and Indiancine.maThe growth of the internet and digital technologies in the last couple of decades, and the emergence of new ‘digital objects’ of enquiry has led to a rethinking of research methods across disciplines as well as innovative modes of creative …
27 Mar 2018
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Designing Urban Nervous SystemsDr. Anupam Saraph will be holding a talk on 'Designing urban nervous systems' at the CIS on Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 3:30 p.m. The talk will revolve around looking at cities as living organisms, with nervous systems at the center of their …
25 Mar 2018
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Digital native: Our lonely connected livesEven as the UK last month announced the appointment of Minister of Loneliness, which sounds more like the title of the next Arundhati Roy novel, it is worth examining why we are so alone in the age of hyperconnectivity.
25 Mar 2018
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Digital Native: A new road to justiceMaking the List takes courage and strength. It involves the formation of a new collective of care.
27 Feb 2018
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Research Symposium on Digital Transitions in Cultural and Creative Industries in India, New Delhi, Feb 27-28It is our privilege to collaborate with LabEx ICCA (Université Paris 13), UNESCO New Delhi, Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), and Centre d'études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS), to organise a Research Symposium on …
25 Feb 2018
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Digital Native: AI ManifestoOur intention and government action will determine our relationship with AI.
7 Feb 2018
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2018 (IRC18): Offline, February 22-24, Sambhaavnaa InstituteWe are proud to announce that the third edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference series will be held at the Sambhaavnaa Institute, Kandbari (Himachal Pradesh) during February 22-24, 2018. This annual conference series was initiated …
22 Jan 2018
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Life of a Tuple: National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Reform of Citizen Identification Infrastructure in AssamWe are proud to announce that a research grant from the Azim Premji University has enabled us to initiate a study of the updation process of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and the resultant reform of citizen …
31 Dec 2017
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Digital native: The age of consentJust like porn is not real life, all news is not real news. It’s time, therefore, to come of age in the 18th year of this century.
3 Dec 2017
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Digital native: Memory card is fullWe train ourselves to forget as our devices store everything. How do we remember things that matter?
19 Nov 2017
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Digital native: Let there be lifeThe first robot citizen of the world is from Saudi Arabia, and she has the dubious fame of having more rights than human counterparts in the country.
5 Nov 2017
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Digital native: Rebellion by Google DocThe List is an example of the power of digital anonymity and solidarity. But we need to move beyond it.
22 Oct 2017
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Digital Native: Finger on the buzzerWhich Hogwarts House are you? No, you don’t really want to know.
9 Oct 2017
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Digital Native: There is no spoon, There is no privacyIt should be common knowledge by now, in our lived experiences of big data, that digital privacy is a battle ground.
20 Sep 2017
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2018 (IRC18): Offline - Call for SessionsDoes being offline necessarily mean being disconnected? Beyond anxieties such as FOMO, being offline is also seen as disengagement from a certain milieu of the digital (read: capital), an impediment to the way life is organised by and …
10 Sep 2017
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Digital native: What’s in a name? PrivilegeAnonymity-based internet apps like Sarahah may not be as vicious for those surrounded by the comfort of social status. If your experience of Sarahah has been positive, it might be good to reflect on your own cultural and social capital.
4 Sep 2017
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The Digital Humanities from Father Busa to Edward SnowdenWhat do Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower behind the NSA surveillance revelations, and Father Roberto Busa, an Italian Jesuit, who worked for almost his entire life on Saint Thomas Aquinas, have in common? The simple answer would be: the …
1 Sep 2017
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Mrutyunjay Mishra - India Online: Measuring, Understanding, and Making Decisions about Internet in India (Delhi, September 01, 6 pm)With great pleasure we announce that Mrutyunjay Mishra, co-founder of Juxt-SmartMandate and India Open Data Association, will be the speaker for the September #FirstFriday event at the CIS office in Delhi. Mrutyunjay is a recognised expert …
27 Aug 2017
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Digital native: You are not aloneAway from the guidance of adults, the internet can be a lonely place for youngsters, pushing them towards self-harm.
30 Jul 2017
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Digital native: Ever on the goIt is time to insist that the infrastructure of digital India is accompanied by the infrastructure of care for the digital Indian.When the telephone was first introduced as a mass communication tool, one of the biggest fears was that it …
16 Jul 2017
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Digital native: Not only wordsEmoticons, or if you prefer the original Japanese word emojis, are everywhere. We are used to emoticons in all shapes and sizes — from animated gifs jumping out at us on our social media feed to yellow-faced smileys that we use to add tone …
7 Jul 2017
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Dr. Prerna Prabhakar - Impact of Digitisation of Land Recods in Rural India (Delhi, July 07, 5 pm)It is our priviledge to annouce that Dr. Prerna Prabhakar will be the speaker for the July #FirstFridayAtCIS event. Dr. Prabhakar is an Associate Fellow with the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). She is involved in a …
29 Jun 2017
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CISxScholars Delhi - Harsh Gupta - FAT ML for Lawyers and Lawmakers (June 29, 5:30 pm)We are proud to announce that Harsh Gupta will discuss "FAT ML (Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning) for Lawyers and Lawmakers" at the CIS office in Delhi on Thursday, June 29, at 5:30 pm. This will be a two and …
24 Jun 2017
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Digital Native: On mute, the Voice of the PeopleWe are at the mercy of trigger-happy governments and profit-hungry corporations that hold our digital lives ransom. They have the capacity to censor, contain, control and eradicate all our digital data without our consent and without …
11 Jun 2017
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Digital Native: In digiville attention is CurrencyThe increased importance on attention and the lack of it on social media gives all the more reason why we need to be discerning about what we invest our attention upon.
2 Jun 2017
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Japleen Pasricha - Gendered Spaces in Digital Rights (Delhi, June 02, 5 pm)It is our priviledge to annouce that Japleen Pasricha will be the speaker for the June #FirstFridayAtCIS event. Japleen smashes the patriarchy for a living, and is Founder & Editor-in-chief of Feminism in India. The talk will focus on her …