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Researchers at Work
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2 Apr 2017
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Digital native: You can check out, you can never leaveAadhaar is not something you define and opt into, it is something that defines you.
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, …
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.
3 Mar 2017
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Digital native: Who will watch the watchman?The state mining its citizens as data and suspending rights to privacy under the rhetoric of national security is alarming.
3 Mar 2017
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Digital Native: Do not go Gently into the Good NightIf there’s a lesson to be learned from the resistance to the Trump administration, it is this — patriotism is not a feeling, it is an action.
22 Jan 2017
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Digital native: Back at it AgainThe Indian digital landscape has put us in a loop of hashtags and outrage, a space where we have mastered the art of shame.
20 Jan 2017
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selected SessionsWith great pleasure we announce the eleven sessions selected for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) to be held at the IIIT Bangalore campus during March 03-05. The Conference is being organised by the Centre for Information …
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 …
8 Jan 2017
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Digital Native: The Dream of the CyborgWe have arrived at hybrid realities, where the technological and the human cannot be separated. The digital future we had once imagined is already here.
30 Dec 2016
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P.P. Sneha - Mapping Digital Humanities in IndiaIt gives us great pleasure to publish the second title of the CIS Papers series. This report by P.P. Sneha comes out of an extended research project supported by the Kusuma Trust. The study undertook a detailed mapping of digital practices …
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 …
14 Dec 2016
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Workshop Report - UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and CountermeasuresThis report presents summarised notes from a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) on Saturday, August 27, 2016, to discuss, raise awareness of, and devise countermeasures to exclusion due to implementation of …
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 …
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.
4 Dec 2016
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CFI-ACCION - Panel Discussion on 'Big Data: Challenge or Opportunity?' (Delhi, December 06)The Centre for Financial Inclusion of ACCION International is organising a panel discussion on "Big Data: Challenge or Opportunity?" as an associated event of the Inclusive Finance India Summit 2016, Hotel Ashok, Delhi, December 05-06. The …
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?
16 Nov 2016
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selection of SessionsWe have a wonderful range of session proposals for the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) to take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. From the 23 submitted session proposals, we will now select 10 to be part of the final …
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.
16 Oct 2016
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Learning through Archives: A Colloquium on Digital ScholarshipFLAME University had invited Centre for Internet & Society to join a colloquium to delve into the opportunities and challenges of digital studies in India, with particular emphasis on pedagogy and the archive.
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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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Call for SessionsIt gives us great pleasure to announce that the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) will take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. It will be organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in partnership with the …
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 …
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.
17 Sep 2016
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Sequoia India’s Designathon 2016Along with their annual hackathon, Sequoia India organised a designathon in Bangalore on September 10-11, 2016. The participants picked one of three tracks - gamification, information visualisation, and smart acceleration - and developed an …
17 Sep 2016
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IIIT Delhi Workshop on Center for IT and SocietyA workshop on the upcoming Center for IT and Society in IIIT-Delhi was organised today, September 17, in the institute. The workshop highlights on the process of establishing a center on IT and Society, which will focus on studying …
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.
6 Sep 2016
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IIRC: Reflections on IRC16The first edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) series was held on February 26-28, 2016. It was hosted by the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and was supported by the CSCS Digitial Innovation …
31 Aug 2016
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Report on Understanding Aadhaar and its New ChallengesThe Trans-disciplinary Research Cluster on Sustainability Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University collaborated with the Centre for Internet and Society, and other individuals and organisations to organise a two day workshop on “Understanding …