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Researchers at Work
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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 …
29 Jul 2016
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Policy Shaping in the Indian IT Industry: Recommendations by NASSCOM on Transfer Pricing, 2014-2016This is the final part 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 aims to explain the …
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 …
5 Jul 2016
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Studying Internet in India (2016): Selected AbstractsWe received some great submissions and decided to select twelve abstracts, and not only ten as we planned earlier. Here are the abstracts.
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 …
1 Jul 2016
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Policy Shaping in the Indian IT Industry: Recommendations by NASSCOM, 2006-2012This is the first 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 posts focuses on the policy …
30 Jun 2016
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Digital Humanities in India – Concluding ThoughtsAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
16 Jun 2016
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Creativity, Politics, and Internet CensorshipIn collaboration with Karnataka for Kashmir, we organised a discussion on 'Creativity, Politics and Internet Censorship' on May 25, 2016. Mahum Shabir, a legal activist and artist, Mir Suhail, political cartoonist with Kashmir Reader and …
1 Jun 2016
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Comments on the RBI's Consultation Paper on Peer to Peer LendingThe Reserve Bank of India published a Consultation Paper on Peer to Peer Lending on April 28, 2016, and invited comments from the public. CIS submitted the following response, authored by Elonnai Hickok, Pavishka Mittal, Sumandro …
31 May 2016
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RBI Consultation Paper on P2P Lending: Data Security and Privacy ConcernsOn April 28, 2016 the Reserve Bank of India published a consultation paper on P2P Lending and invited comments from the public on the same. The Paper discusses what P2P lending is, the various regulatory practices that govern P2P lending in …
23 May 2016
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RBI Consultation Paper on P2P Lending: Legality and ImplicationsThe Reserve Bank of India published a Consultation Paper on Peer-to-Peer Lending on April 28, 2016. The Paper proposes to bring the P2P lending platforms under the purview of RBI’s regulation by defining P2P platforms as NBFCs under section …
20 May 2016
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Call for Essays: Studying Internet in IndiaAs Internet makes itself comfortable amidst everyday lives in India, it becomes everywhere and everyware, it comes in 40 MBPS Unlimited and in chhota recharges – though no longer in zero flavour – the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at …
19 May 2016
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New Modes and Sites of Humanities PracticeAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
18 May 2016
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RBI Consultation Paper on P2P Lending: SummaryThe Reserve Bank of India published a Consultation Paper on Peer-to-Peer Lending on April 28, 2016. The Paper proposes to bring the P2P lending platforms under the purview of RBI’s regulation by defining P2P platforms as NBFCs under section …
28 Apr 2016
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Call for Proposal: Big Data for Development – Initial Field StudiesThe Centre for Internet and Society, as part of a project with the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield, is inviting calls from researchers to undertake a brief initial study of a specific instance of use of big data for …
25 Apr 2016
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Buying into the Aakash Dream - A Tablet’s Tale of Mass EducationThe low-cost Aakash tablet and its previous iterations in India have gone through several phases of technological changes and ideological experiments. Did the government prioritise familiarity and literacy about personal technological …
17 Mar 2016
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Studying Digital Creative Industries in India: Initial QuestionsThis brief overview of the discourse around creative industries is an attempt to explore some ways of identifying what could be digital creative industries in India, and the questions they raise and problematize for us in terms of cultural …
14 Feb 2016
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The Aakash Tablet and Technological Imaginaries of Mass Education in Contemporary India (Excerpt)In a recently published paper, Jahnavi Phalkey and Sumandro Chattapadhyay explore public initiatives in technological solutions for educating the poor and the disadvantaged in independent India. Here is an edited excerpt from the paper that …
9 Feb 2016
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RAW Lectures #02: Anil Menon on 'Speculative Fiction and Freedom' - VideoAnil Menon spoke on 'Undermining the Tyrant’s Protocols: Speculative Fiction and Freedom' at the second event of the RAW Lectures series in Bangalore on January 13, 2016. Here is the video recording of the talk and the discussion that …
14 Jan 2016
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2016 (IRC16) - Selected SessionsWe are proud to announce that the first Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC16), organised around the theme of 'studying internet in India,' will be held on February 26-28, 2016, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi. We are …
12 Jan 2016
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Digital Futures of Indian Languages - Notes from the ConsultationA consultation on 'digital futures of Indian languages' was held at the CIS office in Bangalore on December 12, 2015, to generate ideas and structure the Indian languages focus area of the CSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF). It was led by …
14 Dec 2015
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Living in the Archival MomentAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
7 Dec 2015
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The Infrastructure Turn in the HumanitiesAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
7 Dec 2015
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Reading from a Distance – Data as TextAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
2 Dec 2015
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FOV Podcast - Data, People, and Smart CitiesFor the second part of the Smart City podcast series, Sruthi Krishnan and Harsha K from Fields of View spoke with Sumandro Chattapadhyay on data, people, and smart cities. Here is the podcast. We are grateful to Fields of View for producing …