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Research
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4 Dec 2019
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Simiran Lalvani - Workers’ Fictive Kinship Relations in Mumbai App-based Food DeliveryWorking 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 …
1 Nov 2019
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State of the Internet's Languages 2020: Announcing selected contributions!In response to our call for contributions and reflections on ‘Decolonising the Internet’s Languages’ in August, we are delighted to announce that we received 50 submissions, in over 38 languages! We are so overwhelmed and grateful for the …
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 …
21 Oct 2019
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Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages 2019 - From Conversations to ActionsWhose Knowledge? is organising the Decolonizing the Internet's Languages 2019 gathering in London on October 23-24 — with a specific focus on building an agenda for action to decolonize the internet’s languages. Puthiya Purayil Sneha is …
18 Oct 2019
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The Mother and Child Tracking System - understanding data trail in the Indian healthcare systemsReproductive health programmes in India have been digitising extensive data about pregnant women for over a decade, as part of multiple health information systems. These can be seen as precursors to current conceptions of big data systems …
17 Oct 2019
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Big Data and Reproductive Health in India: A Case Study of the Mother and Child Tracking SystemIn this case study undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development (BD4D) network, Ambika Tandon evaluates the Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) as data-driven initiative in reproductive health at the national level in India. The …
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 Oct 2019
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Digital mediation of domestic and care work in India: Project AnnouncementIt is our great pleasure to announce that we are undertaking a study on digital mediation of domestic and care work in India, as part of and supported by the Feminist Internet Research Network led by the Association for Progressive …
7 Aug 2019
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Call for Contributions and Reflections: Your experiences in Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages!Whose Knowledge?, the Oxford Internet Institute, and the Centre for Internet and Society are creating a State of the Internet’s Languages report, as baseline research with both numbers and stories, to demonstrate how far we are from making …
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 …
11 Jul 2019
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You auto-complete me: romancing the botThis is an excerpt from an essay by Maya Indira Ganesh, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a …
20 Jun 2019
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Unpacking video-based surveillance in New DelhiAayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon presented at an international workshop on 'Urban Data, Inequality and Justice in the Global South', on 14 June 2019, at the University of Manchester. The agenda for the workshop and the slides from the …
11 Jun 2019
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Data bleeding everywhere: a story of period trackersThis is an excerpt from an essay by Sadaf Khan, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration …
22 May 2019
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Can data ever know who we really are?This is an excerpt from an essay by Zara Rahman, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration …
14 Feb 2019
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Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?In order to bring out certain conceptual and procedural problems with health monitoring in the Indian context, this article by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.” …
26 Jun 2018
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Digital Humanities Alliance of India - Inagural Conference 2018 - Keynote by Puthiya Purayil SnehaThe inaugural conference of the Digital Humanities Alliance of India (DHAI) was held at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore on June 1-2, 2018. The event was co-organised by the IIM and the Indian Institute of Technology, …
25 Jun 2018
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New Contexts and Sites of Humanities Practice in the Digital (Paper)The ubiquitous presence of the ‘digital’ over the couple of decades has brought with it several important changes in interdisciplinary forms of research and knowledge production. Particularly in the arts and humanities, the role of digital …
31 Mar 2018
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Making Humanities in the Digital: Embodiment and Framing in Bichitra and Indiancine.maThe growth of the internet and digital technologies in the last couple of decades, and the emergence of new ‘digital objects’ of enquiry has led to a rethinking of research methods across disciplines as well as innovative modes of creative …
22 Jan 2018
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Life of a Tuple: National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Reform of Citizen Identification Infrastructure in AssamWe are proud to announce that a research grant from the Azim Premji University has enabled us to initiate a study of the updation process of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and the resultant reform of citizen …
22 May 2017
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Preliminary research result on Wikipedia gender gap in IndiaSince June 2016, Ting-Yi Chang from the University of Toronto has worked with the CIS-A2K team to conduct action research on the Wikipedia gender gap in India. The research aims to improve the understanding of the gender gap (imbalance) …
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, …
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 …
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 …
18 Sep 2016
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Who Owns Your Phone?The capacity of companies to defy standards that work tells an alarming story of what we lose when we lose control of our devices.
19 Jul 2016
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Digital Transition in Newspapers in India: A Pilot StudyThis pilot study situates itself at the intersection of global trends in news and journalism, and emergent practises of legacy print media in India. Our aim is to explore how legacy print newspapers are transitioning to the online space. …
11 Jul 2016
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RBI and Regulation of Digital Financial Services in India, 2012-2016The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) published its first guideline on mobile banking in 2008, and the conversation on integrating Aadhaar numbers with bank account numbers on one hand and mobile numbers on the other started as soon as UIDAI was …
6 Jul 2016
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How are Indian Newspapers Adapting to the Rise of Digital Media?How are Indian newspapers adapting to the transition to digital news production, distribution, and consumption? How are they changing their journalistic work, their newsroom organisations, and their distribution strategies as digital media …
4 Jul 2016
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Policy Shaping in the Indian IT Industry: Comparative Analysis of Recommendations by NASSCOM and iSPIRT, 2013-2016This is the second of a series of three blog posts, authored by Pavishka Mittal, tracking the engagements by NASSCOM and iSPIRT in suggesting and shaping the IT industry policies in India during 2006-2016. This post conducts a detailed …
3 Jul 2016
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Data for Governance, Governance of Data, and Data AnxietiesThe Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) organised a panel discussion on 'The Data Explosion – How the Internet of Things will Affect Media Freedom and Communication Systems?' at Deutsche Welle's Global Media Forum 2016, held in …