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Researchers at Work
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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 …
1 Jun 2018
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Digital Native: Web of WanderThe idea of travel as a way of expanding our horizon has now been made redundant.
22 Apr 2018
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Digital Native: The e-wasteland of our timesHow digitising isn’t necessarily a fast-track to a sustainable future.
8 Apr 2018
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Digital Native: Delete Facebook?You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
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 …
25 Mar 2018
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Digital native: Our lonely connected livesEven as the UK last month announced the appointment of Minister of Loneliness, which sounds more like the title of the next Arundhati Roy novel, it is worth examining why we are so alone in the age of hyperconnectivity.
25 Mar 2018
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Digital Native: A new road to justiceMaking the List takes courage and strength. It involves the formation of a new collective of care.
25 Feb 2018
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Digital Native: AI ManifestoOur intention and government action will determine our relationship with AI.
7 Feb 2018
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2018 (IRC18): Offline, February 22-24, Sambhaavnaa InstituteWe are proud to announce that the third edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference series will be held at the Sambhaavnaa Institute, Kandbari (Himachal Pradesh) during February 22-24, 2018. This annual conference series was initiated …
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 …
31 Dec 2017
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Digital native: The age of consentJust like porn is not real life, all news is not real news. It’s time, therefore, to come of age in the 18th year of this century.
3 Dec 2017
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Digital native: Memory card is fullWe train ourselves to forget as our devices store everything. How do we remember things that matter?
19 Nov 2017
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Digital native: Let there be lifeThe first robot citizen of the world is from Saudi Arabia, and she has the dubious fame of having more rights than human counterparts in the country.
5 Nov 2017
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Digital native: Rebellion by Google DocThe List is an example of the power of digital anonymity and solidarity. But we need to move beyond it.
22 Oct 2017
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Digital Native: Finger on the buzzerWhich Hogwarts House are you? No, you don’t really want to know.
9 Oct 2017
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Digital Native: There is no spoon, There is no privacyIt should be common knowledge by now, in our lived experiences of big data, that digital privacy is a battle ground.
20 Sep 2017
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2018 (IRC18): Offline - Call for SessionsDoes being offline necessarily mean being disconnected? Beyond anxieties such as FOMO, being offline is also seen as disengagement from a certain milieu of the digital (read: capital), an impediment to the way life is organised by and …
10 Sep 2017
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Digital native: What’s in a name? PrivilegeAnonymity-based internet apps like Sarahah may not be as vicious for those surrounded by the comfort of social status. If your experience of Sarahah has been positive, it might be good to reflect on your own cultural and social capital.
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 …
27 Aug 2017
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Digital native: You are not aloneAway from the guidance of adults, the internet can be a lonely place for youngsters, pushing them towards self-harm.
30 Jul 2017
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Digital native: Ever on the goIt is time to insist that the infrastructure of digital India is accompanied by the infrastructure of care for the digital Indian.When the telephone was first introduced as a mass communication tool, one of the biggest fears was that it …
16 Jul 2017
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Digital native: Not only wordsEmoticons, or if you prefer the original Japanese word emojis, are everywhere. We are used to emoticons in all shapes and sizes — from animated gifs jumping out at us on our social media feed to yellow-faced smileys that we use to add tone …
24 Jun 2017
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Digital Native: On mute, the Voice of the PeopleWe are at the mercy of trigger-happy governments and profit-hungry corporations that hold our digital lives ransom. They have the capacity to censor, contain, control and eradicate all our digital data without our consent and without …
11 Jun 2017
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Digital Native: In digiville attention is CurrencyThe increased importance on attention and the lack of it on social media gives all the more reason why we need to be discerning about what we invest our attention upon.
28 May 2017
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Digital native: Look before you (digitally) leapCreating a digital future is great, but there’s a serious need to secure the infrastructure first.
20 May 2017
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Consultative Meeting for a Digital Archive LabA meeting for a digital archive lab was held at the Centre for Community Knowledge, Ambedkar University in New Delhi on May 20, 2017. P.P. Sneha participated in the meeting.
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 …
14 May 2017
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Digital native: Free speech? You must be joking!India’s digital landscape is dotted with vigilante voices that drown out people’s right to free speech.
5 May 2017
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Digital native: Snap out of outrage modeRage at the inequality of the digital world is good. But why stop at the Snapchat CEO?
17 Apr 2017
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Digital native: Are You Still Having Fun?Before you accept a fun app into your digital ecosystem, prepare yourself for the data you will be giving away.