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Internet Histories
14 items.
25 Apr 2016
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Buying into the Aakash Dream - A Tablet’s Tale of Mass EducationThe low-cost Aakash tablet and its previous iterations in India have gone through several phases of technological changes and ideological experiments. Did the government prioritise familiarity and literacy about personal technological …
14 Feb 2016
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The Aakash Tablet and Technological Imaginaries of Mass Education in Contemporary India (Excerpt)In a recently published paper, Jahnavi Phalkey and Sumandro Chattapadhyay explore public initiatives in technological solutions for educating the poor and the disadvantaged in independent India. Here is an edited excerpt from the paper that …
1 Dec 2015
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RAW Lectures #01: Nishant Shah on 'Stories and Histories of Internet in India' - VideoDr. Nishant Shah spoke on the 'Stories and Histories of Internet in India' at the first event of the RAW Lectures series in Bangalore on March 6, 2015. Here is the video recording of the talk and the discussion that followed.
19 Aug 2015
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Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in India - Open ReviewThis is a book section written for the third volume (2000-2010) of the Asia Internet History series edited by Prof. Kilnam Chon. The pre-publication text of the section is being shared here to invite suggestions for addition and …
19 Aug 2015
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Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia - Open ReviewThis is a book section written for the third volume (2000-2010) of the Asia Internet History series edited by Prof. Kilnam Chon. The pre-publication text of the section is being shared here to invite suggestions for addition and …
27 Mar 2015
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Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia and India – Section OutlinesThe Centre for Internet and Society has been invited to contribute two sections to the Asia Internet History - Third Decade (2001-2010) book edited by Dr. Kilnam Chon. The sections will discuss the activities and experiences of civil …
28 Sep 2011
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Re:Wiring BodiesAsha Achuthan initiates a historical research inquiry to understand the ways in which gendered bodies are shaped by the Internet imaginaries in contemporary India. Tracing the history from nationalist debates between Gandhi and Tagore to …
22 Sep 2011
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Archives and AccessThe monograph by Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto, is a material history of the Internet archives. It examines the role of the archivist and the changing relationship between the state and private archives for looking at the politics …
2 Aug 2011
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We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being HumanThe Cyborg - a cybernetique organism which is a combination of the biological and the technological – has been at the centre of discourse around digital technologies. Especially with wearable computing and ubiquitous access to the digital …
14 Feb 2011
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Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities - A Call for Peer ReviewPratyush Shankar's research project on "Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities" is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. His monograph explores the trajectories of transformation …
25 Aug 2010
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Attentional Capital in Online Gaming : The Currency of SurvivalThis blog post by Arun Menon discusses the concepts of production, labour and race in virtual worlds and their influence on the production of attention as a currency. An attempt is made to locate attentional capital, attentional …
22 Jul 2010
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The Attention Economy - A Brief IntroductionThis post examines attention economy as a brief prelude to a paper and monograph to be published on it. It examines the current theses on attention economy and a few approaches to reading attention economy in gaming besides foregrounding …
17 Dec 2009
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Re:wiring Bodies: Call for ReviewDr. Asha Achuthan's research project on "Rewiring Bodies" is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. From her vantage position, straddling the disciplines of medicine an Cultural …
2 Sep 2009
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Rethinking the last mile Problem: A cultural argumentThis research project, by Ashish Rajadhyaksha from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, is mainly a conceptual-archival investigation into India’s history for what has in recent years come to be known as the ‘last mile’ problem. …