Topic
Gender
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17 Dec 2024
11 Apr 2024
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Online Gender Based Violence on Short Form Video PlatformsAn inquiry into platform policies and safeguards. This report explores how short-form video platforms in India address online gender based violence (oGBV) by analysing their terms of service, community guidelines (CG), and reporting …
16 Apr 2022
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Feminist Design PracticesAayush Rathi and Akash Sheshadri and Ambika Tandon co-authored a research paper on 'Feminist Design Practices' which was published in a special issue of Apria, a peer-reviewed journal hosted at ArtEZ University. The special issue "Feminist …
7 Dec 2021
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Gender and gig work: Perspectives from domestic work in IndiaPlatforms have the potential to be instrumental in protecting workers rights, but the current platform design is not optimised to protect workers’ interests especially those of women in the gig economy, argues Ambika Tandon, a senior …
24 May 2021
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Women on Covid lists get lewd calls and messagesPerverts are eating into precious time in the middle of a pandemic and adding to the overall anxiety.
23 Dec 2020
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Gender, Health, & Surveillance in India - A Panel DiscussionWomen and LGBTHIAQ-identifying persons face intensive and varied forms of surveillance as they access reproductive health systems. Increasingly, these systems are also undergoing rapid digitisation. The panel was set-up to discuss the …
1 Aug 2020
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Raina Roy and Abhiraj Bag - Kolkata’s trans community has been locked out of healthcare and livelihoodOver six months into the outbreak of Covid-19 in India, it has become clear that the pandemic does not affect everybody equally. It has amplified the sufferings of the already-marginalised trans community. Raina Roy spoke to 10 trans …
14 Jul 2020
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Use of mobile phones by vulnerable communities: A survey of sex workers and gay men in KarnatakaThis report has been authored by Megha Malnad, Parimala, Nagina, and Tasneem Mewa, and edited by Ambika Tandon, Gurshabad Grover and Rajesh Srinivas.
14 Jul 2020
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Social Entitlements for the Transgender CommunityThis report has been authored by Deepa Krishnappa and Tasneem Mewa, and edited by Ambika Tandon, Gurshabad Grover and Rajesh Srinivas.
22 Jun 2020
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'I feel the pain of having nowhere to go': A Manipuri Trans Woman Recounts Her Ongoing Lockdown Ordeal"My life and work in Bengaluru came to an abrupt halt with the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown this March. We no longer had jobs and were forced to plan our departure from the city." -- As told to Santa Khurai, Manipur-based queer and Nupi …
19 May 2020
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A Compilation of Research on the Gig EconomyOver the past year, researchers at CIS have been studying gig economies and gig workers in India. Their work has involved consultative discussions with domestic workers, food delivery workers, taxi drivers, trade union leaders, and …
13 Feb 2020
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Announcing Selected Researchers: Welfare, Gender, and SurveillanceWe published a Call for Researchers on January 10, 2020, to invite applications from researchers interested in writing a narrative essay that interrogates the modes of surveillance that people of LGBTHIAQ+ and gender non-conforming …
5 Feb 2020
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Roundtable on India’s Gig-work EconomyWorking in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every …
10 Jan 2020
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Call for Researchers: Welfare, Gender, and SurveillanceWe are inviting applications for two researchers. Each researcher is expected to write a narrative essay that interrogates the modes of surveillance that people of LGBTHIAQ+ and gender non-conforming identities and sexual orientations are …
15 Dec 2019
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Stakeholder Consultation on Digital Assets for Women’s Economic Empowerment | UN Women + SEWAOn December 06, 2019, Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi participated in a "Stakeholder Consultation on Digital Assets for Women’s Economic Empowerment: Addressing Barriers and Enhancing Opportunities for Women in Informal Economy and in …
28 Nov 2019
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Project on Gender, Health Communications and Online Activism with City UniversityCIS is a partner on the project 'Gender, Health Communications and Online Activism in the Digital Age'. The project is lead by Dr. Carolina Matos, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Media in the Department of Sociology at City University.
24 Oct 2019
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Comments to the United Nations Human Rights Commission Report on Gender and PrivacyThis submission to UNHRC presents a response by researchers at the CIS to ‘gender issues arising in the digital era and their impacts on women, men and individuals of diverse sexual orientations gender identities, gender expressions and sex …
10 Oct 2019
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Doing Standpoint TheoryFeminist research methodology has evolved from different epistemologies, with several different schools of thought. Some of the more popular ones are feminist standpoint theory, feminist empiricism, and feminist relativism. Standpoint …
1 Sep 2019
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Doing Standpoint TheoryFeminist research methodology has evolved from different epistemologies, with several different schools of thought. Some of the more popular ones are feminist standpoint theory, feminist empiricism, and feminist relativism.
22 Jul 2019
News
Lecture at International Summer School, DelhiAmbika Tandon and Aayush Rathi, on July 12, 2019, delivered a lecture at the International Summer School, Delhi.
21 Jul 2019
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Presentation to Amnesty International on researching the Future of WorkAayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon made a presentation to Amnesty International on July 18, 2019.
9 May 2019
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Workshop on Feminist Information InfrastructureThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) organised a workshop on feminist infrastructure in collaboration with Blank Noise and Sangama, on 29th October, 2018. The purpose of the workshop was to disseminate the findings from a two-month …
1 Mar 2019
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Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) Convening DesignAmbika Tandon attended a workshop organized by Association for Progressive Communications for grantees of the Feminist Internet Research Network as a panelist on a session on feminist research methods.. The workshop was held from 27 …
27 Feb 2019
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Imagine a Feminist Internet: Research, Practice and Policy in South AsiaInternet Democracy Project and Point of View co-organized a two-day Imagine a Feminist Internet event in Sri Lanka on 22011 and 22 February 2019. Ambika Tandon was a speaker and presented a paper 'Framing Reproductive Health as a Data …
17 Feb 2019
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Unbox Festival 2019: CIS organizes two WorkshopsCentre for Internet & Society organized two workshops at the Unbox Festival 2019, in Bangalore, on 15 and 17 February 2019.
23 Dec 2018
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Feminist Methodology in Technology Research: A Literature ReviewThis literature review has been authored by Ambika Tandon, with contributions from Mukta Joshi. Research assistance was provided by Kumarjeet Ray and Navya Sharma. The publication has been designed by Saumyaa Naidu.
20 Dec 2018
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Event Report on Intermediary Liability and Gender Based ViolenceThis report is a summary of the proceedings of the Roundtable Conference organized by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) at the Digital Citizen Summit, an annual summit organized by the Digital Empowerment Foundation. It was …
19 Dec 2018
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A Gendered Future of WorkThis paper aims to contextualise the narrative around digitalisation and automation with reference to women's labour in India. The paper has been authored by Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi, edited by Elonnai Hickok and Rakhi Sehgal. …
4 Dec 2018
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International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2018The event was co-organized by Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Sama - A Resource Centre for Women and Health and was held at St. John's Medical College in Bangalore between December 3 and 5, 2018.
28 Nov 2018
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Girls' schools, women's PGs: The shocking results when you Google 'bitches near me'Considering the monopoly and clout that Google enjoys, it must be held accountable for promoting such stereotypes and values, experts say.