Topic
Digital Activism
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28 Apr 2019
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Digital Native: Getting through an election made for the social media gazeIn the poll season, social media platforms thrive on wounded outrage disguised as politics.
8 Aug 2015
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Digital Activism in Asia ReaderThe digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian activists to cultural protests in Thailand, we see the emergence of political …
16 Jul 2015
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Effective Activism: The Internet, Social Media, and Hierarchical Activism in New DelhiThis post by Sarah McKeever is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Sarah is a PhD candidate at the India Institute, King’s College London, and her work focuses on the impact of social media on contemporary political movements. …
17 Mar 2015
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Digital Activism in Asia Reader: AnnouncementThe CIS-RAW programme organized an editorial workshop on March 6-7, 2015, as part of its project on a Digital Activism in Asia Reader. The project is a collaborative effort of the Centre for Internet and Society and the Centre for Digital …
24 Feb 2014
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Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 1This post compares the production behind a performance with the process of storytelling. To illustrate this analogy, we explore the stories of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian- two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions …
7 Jul 2013
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Political Economy, Activism and Alternative Economic StrategiesThe fourth annual conference in political economy was organized by the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam at the Hague from July 9 - 13, 2013.
19 Jun 2013
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My First Wikipedia Training Workshop – Theatre Outreach Unit, University of HyderabadOn March 8, 2013, a day-long Telugu Wikipedia training workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team at the Golden Threshold, Nampally, Hyderabad in collaboration with Theatre Outreach …
18 Jun 2013
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Whose Change is it Anyway?This thought piece is an attempt to reflect critically on existing practices of “making change” and its implications for the future of citizen action in information and network societies. It observes that change is constantly and explicitly …
21 Jan 2013
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Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language Wikipedia articles which …
29 Oct 2012
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The Rules of EngagementWhy the have-nots of the digital world can sometimes be mistaken as trolls. I am not sure if you have noticed, but lately, the people populating our social networks have started to be more diverse than before.
10 Jul 2012
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10th International ISTR ConferenceThe 10th international ISTR conference was organised by ISTR at Universita Degli Studi Di Siena in Italy from July 10 to 13, 2012. Nishant Shah gave a lecture on Beyond Normative Citizenships: Exploring the ‘New’ in Digital Activism.
3 Nov 2011
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On Fooling Around: Digital Natives and Politics in AsiaYouths are not only actively participating in the politics of its times but also changing the way in which we understand the political processes of mobilisation, participation and transformation, writes Nishant Shah. The paper was presented …
15 Sep 2011
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Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth, technology and change in a four book collective “Digital AlterNatives with a cause?”. This collaboratively produced …
23 Aug 2011
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Between the Stirrup and the Ground: Relocating Digital ActivismIn this peer reviewed research paper, Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen draws on a research project that focuses on understanding new technology, mediated identities, and their relationship with processes of change in their immediate and …
23 Aug 2011
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Between the Stirrup and the Ground: Relocating Digital ActivismIn this peer reviewed research paper, Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen draws on a research project that focuses on understanding new technology, mediated identities, and their relationship with processes of change in their immediate and …
11 Jun 2011
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Locating Internets: Histories of the Internet(s) in India — Research Training and Curriculum Workshop: Call for ParticipationDeadline for submission: 26th July 2011-06-08; When: 19th - 22nd August, 2011; Where: Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University, Ahmedabad; Organised by: Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and CEPT …
28 Mar 2011
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I Believe that .......... should be a Right in the Digital AgeOn Monday March 21, 2011, people from three continents blogged about what they believe will/should/are rights in the digital age, as part of the "Digital Natives with a Cause?" project. From "free music" to "many identities", people have a …
23 Mar 2011
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Reflecting from the BeyondAfter going ‘beyond the digital’ with Blank Noise through the last nine posts, the final post in the series reflects on the understanding gained so far about youth digital activism and questions one needs to carry in moving forward on …
14 Mar 2011
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Science, Technology and Society International Conference – Some AfterthoughtsAn international conference on Science, Technology and Society was held at the Indore Christian College on March 12 and 13. It was sponsored by the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal and organized by the Indore …
10 Mar 2011
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Activism: Unraveling the TermAfter discussing Blank Noise’s politics and ways of organizing, the current post explores whether activism is still a relevant concept to capture the involvement of people within the collective. I explore the questions from the vantage …
18 Feb 2011
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The Class QuestionBlank Noise aims to be as inclusive as possible and therefore does not identify any specific target groups. Yet, the spaces and the methods they occupy do attract certain kinds of volunteers and public. This raises the class question: what …
11 Feb 2011
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Diving Into the DigitalPrevious posts in the ‘Beyond the Digital’ series have discussed the non-virtual aspects and presence of Blank Noise. However, to understand the activism of digital natives also require a look into their online presence and activities. This …
21 Jan 2011
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The Digital Tipping PointIs Web 2.0 really the only reason why youth digital activism is so successful in mobilizing public engagement? A look into the transformation of Blank Noise’s blog from a one-way communication medium into a site of public dialogue and …
3 Dec 2010
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Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon: Position PapersThe Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon conference co-organised by Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society is being held from 6 to 8 December at the Hague Museum for Communication. The position papers are now available online.
17 Nov 2010
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Taking It to the StreetsThe previous posts in the Beyond the Digital series have discussed the distinct ways in which young people today are thinking about their activism. The fourth post elaborates further on how this is translated into practice by sharing the …
7 Nov 2010
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The 'Beyond the Digital' DirectoryFor the past few months, Maesy Angelina has been sharing the insights gained from her research with Blank Noise on the activism of digital natives. The ‘Beyond the Digital’ directory offers a list of the posts on the research based on the …
7 Nov 2010
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Talking Back without "Talking Back"The activism of digital natives is often considered different from previous generations because of the methods and tools they use. However, reflecting on my conversations with The Blank Noise Project and my experience in the ‘Digital …
28 Oct 2010
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First Thing FirstStudies often focus on how digital natives do their activism in identifying the characteristics of youth digital activism and dedicate little attention to what the activism is about. The second blog post in the Beyond the Digital series …
13 Oct 2010
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The Future of Journalism: EJC @ Picnic 2010Nishant Shah was a speaker at the PICNIC 2010, in Amsterdam, where he made a presentation titled "Citizens in the time of Database Democracies : Information ecology and role of participatory technologies in India"
27 Sep 2010
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Digital Natives Workshop in South Africa - Call for ParticipationThe African Commons Project, Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have joined hands for organising the second international workshop "My Bubble, My Space, My Voice" in Johannesburg from 07 to 09 November 2010. Send in your …