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Researchers at Work
Interdisciplinary research on the internet and digital media. 556 items.
28 May 2017
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Digital native: Look before you (digitally) leapCreating a digital future is great, but there’s a serious need to secure the infrastructure first.
20 May 2017
News
Consultative Meeting for a Digital Archive LabA meeting for a digital archive lab was held at the Centre for Community Knowledge, Ambedkar University in New Delhi on May 20, 2017. P.P. Sneha participated in the meeting.
16 May 2017
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Tech Anthropology Today: Collaborate, Rather than Fetishize from Afar"That is why the 'offline' if you will is so critical to understanding the 'online'—because they do not exist in isolation and what we have constructed is an illusory binary between the two." In this interview, Geert Lovink discusses with …
14 May 2017
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Digital native: Free speech? You must be joking!India’s digital landscape is dotted with vigilante voices that drown out people’s right to free speech.
5 May 2017
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Digital native: Snap out of outrage modeRage at the inequality of the digital world is good. But why stop at the Snapchat CEO?
17 Apr 2017
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Digital native: Are You Still Having Fun?Before you accept a fun app into your digital ecosystem, prepare yourself for the data you will be giving away.
2 Apr 2017
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Digital native: You can check out, you can never leaveAadhaar is not something you define and opt into, it is something that defines you.
29 Mar 2017
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Exploring Big Data for Development: An Electricity Sector Case Study from IndiaThis working paper by Ritam Sengupta, Dr. Richard Heeks, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, and Dr. Christopher Foster draws from the field study undertaken by Ritam Sengupta, and is published by the Global Development Institute, University of …
27 Mar 2017
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Evaluating Safety Buttons on Mobile Devices: PreviewMuch technological innovation for women is aimed at addressing violence against women. One such ubiquitous intervention is mobile device-based safety applications, also known as emergency applications. Several police departments in India, …
19 Mar 2017
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Digital native: Lie Me a RiverThe sea of social media around us often drowns the truth, exchanging misinformation for facts.
3 Mar 2017
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17)With great pleasure we announce the second edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC), an annual conference series initiated by the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at CIS to gather researchers, academic or otherwise, studying …
3 Mar 2017
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Digital native: Who will watch the watchman?The state mining its citizens as data and suspending rights to privacy under the rhetoric of national security is alarming.
3 Mar 2017
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Digital Native: Do not go Gently into the Good NightIf there’s a lesson to be learned from the resistance to the Trump administration, it is this — patriotism is not a feeling, it is an action.
22 Jan 2017
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Digital native: Back at it AgainThe Indian digital landscape has put us in a loop of hashtags and outrage, a space where we have mastered the art of shame.
20 Jan 2017
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selected SessionsWith great pleasure we announce the eleven sessions selected for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) to be held at the IIIT Bangalore campus during March 03-05. The Conference is being organised by the Centre for Information …
16 Jan 2017
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Digital transitions in the newsroom: How are Indian language papers adapting differently?In a new report published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Centre for Internet and Society, Zeenab Aneez explores how Indian newsrooms are adapting their workflow and processes to cater to an increasing digital …
8 Jan 2017
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Digital Native: The Dream of the CyborgWe have arrived at hybrid realities, where the technological and the human cannot be separated. The digital future we had once imagined is already here.
30 Dec 2016
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P.P. Sneha - Mapping Digital Humanities in IndiaIt gives us great pleasure to publish the second title of the CIS Papers series. This report by P.P. Sneha comes out of an extended research project supported by the Kusuma Trust. The study undertook a detailed mapping of digital practices …
18 Dec 2016
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Digital Native: People Like UsHow the algorithm decides what you see on your timeline. If you have been hanging out on social media, there is one thing you can’t have escaped — a filter bubble. Be it demonetisation and its discontents, the fake news stories that seem to …
14 Dec 2016
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Workshop Report - UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and CountermeasuresThis report presents summarised notes from a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) on Saturday, August 27, 2016, to discuss, raise awareness of, and devise countermeasures to exclusion due to implementation of …
9 Dec 2016
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Indian Newspapers' Digital TransitionThis report examines the digital transition underway at three leading newspapers in India, the Dainik Jagran in Hindi, English-language Hindustan Times, and Malayala Manorama in Malayalam. Our focus is on how they are changing their …
5 Dec 2016
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Digital native: The View from My BubbleIn the digital world, the privileged have the power to deny a devastating crisis for the poor.
4 Dec 2016
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CFI-ACCION - Panel Discussion on 'Big Data: Challenge or Opportunity?' (Delhi, December 06)The Centre for Financial Inclusion of ACCION International is organising a panel discussion on "Big Data: Challenge or Opportunity?" as an associated event of the Inclusive Finance India Summit 2016, Hotel Ashok, Delhi, December 05-06. The …
22 Nov 2016
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Digital native: The Voices in Our HeadsWhat if our phones were to go silent? Would you be able to deal with the silence?
16 Nov 2016
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selection of SessionsWe have a wonderful range of session proposals for the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) to take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. From the 23 submitted session proposals, we will now select 10 to be part of the final …
9 Nov 2016
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Digital Native: Mind Your LanguageThe lack of localisation on the Internet is a symptom of a larger problem. It has been a festive season. Greetings are in the air. Well, realistically speaking, smoke-filled smog is in the air and greetings are all on social media. In a …
3 Nov 2016
Event
CISxScholars Delhi - William F. Stafford (Nov 03, 6:30 pm)We are delighted to have William F. Stafford, PhD candidate in UC Berkeley, present on "Public Measurements, Private Measurements, and the Convergence of Units" at the CIS office in Delhi on Thursday, Nov 03, at 6:30 pm. Please RSVP if you …
17 Oct 2016
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Love in the Time of TinderService providers and information aggregators mine our information and share it in ways that we cannot imagine.
17 Oct 2016
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Digital Native: The Future is NowThe digital is not just an addition but the new norm in our lives, and it might not be all good. There used to be a popular joke among technology geeks when Bluetooth arrived on our mobile devices — everything becomes better with Bluetooth.
16 Oct 2016
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Learning through Archives: A Colloquium on Digital ScholarshipFLAME University had invited Centre for Internet & Society to join a colloquium to delve into the opportunities and challenges of digital studies in India, with particular emphasis on pedagogy and the archive.