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Research
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30 Dec 2014
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The Spaces of Digital'The Spaces of Digital’ continues from the work done on the CIS-RAW monograph on the Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities, by Pratyush Shankar at Center for Environmental Planning and Technology University, Ahmedabad. The premise of …
30 Nov 2014
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Mapping Digital Humanities in India - Concluding ThoughtsThis final blog post on the mapping exercise undertaken by CIS-RAW summarises some of the key concepts and terms that have emerged as significant in the discourse around Digital Humanities in India.
15 Oct 2014
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Rethinking Conditions of AccessP. P. Sneha explores the possibilities of redefining the idea of access through the channels of education and learning.
30 Sep 2014
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Consultation on Figures of Learning in the Digital Context - ReportThe Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society organised a consultation on ‘Figures of Learning in the Digital Context’ on September 22, 2014 in Bangalore.
19 Aug 2014
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Digital Humanities and the Alt-AcademyThe emergence of Digital Humanities (DH) has been contemporaneous to the ‘crisis’ in the humanities, spurred by changing social and economic conditions which have urged us to rethink traditional methods, locations and concepts of research …
14 Aug 2014
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Interviews with App Developers: [dis]regard towards IPR vs. Patent Hype – Part IIThe following is a second post within a series reporting on interviews conducted with 10 of Bangalore's mobile app developers and other industry stakeholders. Within this research, CIS attempts to understand how they engage with the law …
23 Jul 2014
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Reading from a Distance — Data as TextThe advent of new digital technologies and the internet has redefined practices of reading and writing, and the notion of textuality which is a fundamental aspect of humanities research and scholarship. This blog post looks at some of the …
19 Jun 2014
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Living in the Archival MomentThe archive has been and continues to be a key concept in Digital Humanities discourse, particularly in India. The importance of the archive to knowledge production in the Humanities, the implication of changes in archival practice with the …
15 Jun 2014
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Not a Goodbye; More a ‘Come Again’: Thoughts on being Research Director at a moment of transitionAs I slowly make the news of my transition from being the Research Director at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, to taking up a professorship at the Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany, there is a question that I am often …
30 Apr 2014
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Reaping the Benefits of GamificationAs a part of the Making Change blog-post series, in this post we will identify a new technique: gamification. This technique is being used for sustainable environment conservation by modern day change-makers. We interview two out of three …
30 Apr 2014
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From Taboo to Beautiful - MenstrupediaOn this post, we take a look at 'menstrual activism' -a movement that despite its trajectory in feminism, remains unnoticed in most accounts of traditional and digital activism. We interview Tuhin Paul, the artist and storyteller behind …
16 Apr 2014
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Multimedia Storytellers: Panel DiscussionThis post brings three storytellers together to find points of intersection between their methods. The format will be that of a panel discussion and it features: Arjun Srivathsa from Pocket Science India, Ameen Haque from the Storywallahs, …
14 Apr 2014
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Bridging the Information Divide - Political QuotientOn this post, we will unpack 'information poverty'- a problem lying at the very foundation of the crises that inspired this project and a barrier impacting political action. We interview Surabhi HR, the founder director of the political …
12 Mar 2014
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Information Structures for Citizen Participation - JanaagrahaIn our efforts to understand how change is conceptualized in the digital era, we find a growing emphasis on the role of effective information structures to empower the citizen and the government. We interview Joylita Saldanha from …
4 Mar 2014
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Digital Design: Human Behavior vs. Technology - Vita BeansWhat comes first? Understanding human behavior and communication patterns to design digital technologies? Or should our technologies have the innate capacity to adapt to the profiles of all its potential users? This post will look at …
27 Feb 2014
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Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 2This post compares the method of storytelling with performances. To illustrate this, we explore the narratives of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian, two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions in the public space. Part 2 …
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 …
30 Oct 2012
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Banking and Accessibility in India: A Study on Banking Accessibility in India — Call for CommentsThe adoption of accessible features and technologies by banks in India is low despite there being legislative and executive push for it. It is important for the banks to understand not just their obligations but also the benefits that will …
18 Jul 2012
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Bangalore Thinkathon Surrogacy: Bodies, States, NetworksThe first workshop of the Habits of Living project will be a Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) focused on the notion of surrogate structures that have become the visible landmarks of contemporary life and will be hosted by the Centre for …
24 May 2012
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Google Policy Fellowship Programme: Call for ApplicationsThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is inviting applications for the Google Policy Fellowship programme. Google is providing a USD 7,500 stipend to the India Fellow, who will be selected by August 15, 2012.
27 Apr 2012
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Intermediary Liability in India: Chilling Effects on Free Expression on the InternetThe Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Google India conducted the Google Policy Fellowship 2011. This was offered for the first time in Asia Pacific as well as in India. Rishabh Dara was selected as a Fellow and researched …
23 Mar 2012
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Locating the Mobile: An Ethnographic Investigation into Locative Media in Melbourne, Bangalore and ShanghaiFrom Google maps, geoweb, GPS (Global Positioning System), geotagging, Foursquare and Jie Pang, locative media is becoming an integral part of the smartphone (and shanzhai or copy) phenomenon. For a growing generation of users, locative …
23 Mar 2012
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Interface IntimaciesSherry Turkle, in her book Alone Together, talked about how the digital technologies, replacing interface time with face-time, are slowly alienating us from our social networks. There has been an increasing amount of anxiety around how …
23 Mar 2012
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Habits of Living: Global Networks, Local Affects“Networks” have become a defining concept of our epoch. From high-speed financial networks that erode national sovereignty to networking sites like Facebook that transform the meaning of the word “friend,” from blogs that foster new …
22 Mar 2012
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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 …
24 Dec 2011
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Now Streaming on Your Nearest ScreenDigital cinema, especially the kinds produced using mobile devices and travelling on Internet social networking systems like YouTube and MySpace, are often dismissed as apolitical and ‘merely’ a fad. Moreover, content in the non-English …
23 Dec 2011
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Internet and Society in Asia: Challenges and Next StepsThe ubiquitous presence of internet technologies, in our age of digital revolution, has demanded the attention of various disciplines of study and movements for change around the globe. As more of our environment gets connected to the …
23 Nov 2011
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Know your Users, Match their Needs!As Free Access to Law initiatives in the Global South enter into a new stage of maturity, they must be certain not to lose sight of their users’ needs. The following post gives a summary of the “Good Practices Handbook”, a research output …
7 Nov 2011
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Material Cyborgs; Asserted Boundaries: Formulating the Cyborg as a TranslatorIn this peer reviewed article, Nishant Shah explores the possibility of formulating the cyborg as an author or translator who is able to navigate between the different binaries of ‘meat–machine’, ‘digital–physical’, and ‘body–self’, using …
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 …