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RAW Blog
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25 Mar 2024
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Understanding Feminist Infrastructures: An Exploratory Study of Online Feminist Content Creation Spaces in IndiaThis report explores the growth of feminist infrastructures (including the various interpretations of the term), through research on feminist publishing, content creation and curation spaces and how they have informed the contemporary …
22 Dec 2023
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Unpacking Algorithmic Infrastructures: Mapping the Data Supply Chain in the Healthcare Industry in IndiaThe Unpacking Algorithmic Infrastructures project, supported by a grant from the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab, aims to study the Al data supply chain infrastructure in healthcare in India, and aims to critically analyse auditing …
15 Dec 2023
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User Experiences of Digital Financial Risks and HarmsThe reach and use of digital financial services has risen in recent years without a commensurate increase in digital literacy and access. Through this project, supported by a grant from Google(.)org, we will examine the landscape of …
3 Jul 2023
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Metaphors of Work, from ‘Below’Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon authored a chapter that describes platforms as more than technological interfaces. The chapter invokes some of the metaphors that gig workers use to make sense of platforms. This chapter was part of an edited …
13 Aug 2022
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Designing Domestic Work PlatformsThis research was conducted by The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) with funding from Association for Progressive Communication (APC) through the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN), supported by International Development …
26 Jul 2022
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Procurement Through Digital PlatformsProcurement policies, both public and private, can play a significant role in determining inclusive market participation, particularly for informal women workers and their collective enterprises.
8 Jul 2022
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Datafication of the Public Distribution System in IndiaIn this study, we look into the datafication of social protection schemes with a special focus on the Public Distribution System in India. Proponents of datafication claim that the benefits will reach the right person and curb leakages …
7 Mar 2022
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The State of the Internet's Languages ReportThe first-ever State of the Internet’s Languages Report was launched by Whose Knowledge? on February 23, 2022 (just after the International Mother Language day), along with research partners Oxford Internet Institute and the Centre for …
4 Jan 2022
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Locating Migrants in India’s Gig Economy: A Scoping ReportGig workers working for on-demand platform services have been adversely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
6 Dec 2021
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Between Platform and Pandemic: Migrants in India's Gig EconomyIn response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in India, the central government announced a nationwide lockdown in March 2020.
6 Dec 2021
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Are India’s much-lauded startups failing their women workers?Recent protests outside Urban Company’s head office highlight the gendered nature of work in the country’s digital economy.
3 Sep 2019
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Essays on #List — Selected AbstractsIn response to a recent call for essays that social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the #List, we received 11 abstracts. Out of these, we have selected 4 pieces to be published as part of a series …
12 Jul 2019
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Call for Essays — #ListThe researchers@work programme at CIS invites abstracts for essays that explore social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the ‘list’. We have selected 4 abstracts among those received before August …
2 Jan 2019
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Welcome to r@w blog!We from the researchers@work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are delighted to announce the launch of our new blog, hosted on Medium. It will feature works by researchers and practitioners working in India and …
6 Sep 2018
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Essays on 'Offline' - Selected AbstractsIn response to a recent call for essays that explore various dimensions of offline lives, we received 22 abstracts. Out of these, we have selected 10 pieces to be published as part of a series titled 'Offline' on the upcoming r@w blog. …
9 Aug 2018
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Call for Essays: OfflineWho is offline, and is it a choice? The global project of bringing people online has spurred several commendable initiatives in expanding access to digital devices, networks, and content, and often contentious ones such as Free Basics / …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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?
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.
27 Sep 2016
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Mobilizing Online Consensus: Net Neutrality and the India SubredditThis essay by Sujeet George is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author offers a preliminary gesture towards understanding reddit’s usage and breadth in the Indian context. Through an analysis of the “India” subreddit and …
23 Sep 2016
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How Green is the Internet? The Good, the Bad, and the UglyThis essay by Aishwarya Panicker is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author draws attention to the fact that there is little data, debate, analysis, and examination of the environmental impact of the internet, which is …
9 Sep 2016
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Quarter Life Crisis: The World Wide Web turns 25 this yearWith the unexplained ban on websites, the state seems to have stopped caring for the digital rights of its citizens.
30 Aug 2016
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The Curious Incidents on Matrimonial Websites in IndiaThis essay by Abhimanyu Roy is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author explores how the curious interplays between the arranged marriage market in India the rise of matrimonial sites such as Jeevansathi.com and …
7 Aug 2016
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Do I Want to Say Happy B’day?When it comes to greeting friends on their birthdays, social media prompts are a great reminder. So why does an online message leave us cold?
3 Aug 2016
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101 Ways of Starting an ISP:* No. 53 - Conversation, Content and Weird FictionThis essay by Surfatial is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. It argues that the internet has created a space for philosophical questioning among contemporary Indian participants which can develop further, despite common …