Topic
Web Politics
18 items.
20 Jan 2014
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Creative Activism - Voices of Young Change Makers in India (UDAAN)This post is a short account of what happened at UDAAN in December 2013 — a conference that gathered 100 youth from across the country to discuss pressing environmental issues and creative strategies to tackle them. We conducted a survey to …
27 Dec 2013
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Information Design - Visualizing Action (TTC)This is the second part of the Making Change analysis on information activism. It explores the role of the presentation and design of information to translate information into action.
26 Dec 2013
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Information Activism - Tactics for Empowerment (TTC)This is the first of a two-part analysis of information activism for the Making Change project. This post looks at the benefits and limitations of increasing access to information to enable citizenship and political participation.
22 Dec 2013
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Digital NativeThe end of the year is supposed to be a happy, feel-good space for families, friends, societies and communities to come together and count our blessings. It is the time to look at things that have gone by and look forward to what the New …
30 Nov 2013
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Public Art, Technology and Citizenship - Blank Noise ProjectJasmeen Patheja speaks about the active citizen in the digital age, its challenges in the public and private spheres and interdisciplinary methods to overcome them.
30 Nov 2013
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Methods for Social ChangeOn this brief introduction, I outline the main targets of my research project for CIS and the HIVOS Knowledge Program. As a response to the thought piece ‘Whose Change is it Anyway’ I will explore civic engagement among middle class youth …
20 Nov 2013
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Digitally Enhanced Civil ResistanceThis reflection looks at how civil disobedience unfolds in network societies. It explores the origins of nonviolence, describes digital and non-digital tactics of non-violent protest and participation and finally comments on the …
27 Sep 2013
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Bangalore + Sustainability SummitThe power of technology to create youth engagement and positive social change were discussed at the Bangalore + Sustainability Summit on September 21, 2013 at the Centre for Internet and Society(CIS) , Bangalore. The event, in conjunction …
20 Sep 2013
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Revealing Protesters on the Fringe: Crucifixion Protest in ParaguayAn analysis of the crucifix protest in Paraguay in the light of Nishant Shah’s piece: Whose Change is it Anyway? The blog post looks at the physical and symbolic spaces in which narratives of change were conceived and the extent to which …
4 Apr 2012
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Framing the Digital AlterNativesThey effect social change through social media, place their communities on the global map, and share spiritual connections with the digital world - meet the everyday digital native.
3 Nov 2011
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On Fooling Around: Digital Natives and Politics in AsiaYouths are not only actively participating in the politics of its times but also changing the way in which we understand the political processes of mobilisation, participation and transformation, writes Nishant Shah. The paper was presented …
21 Sep 2011
News
Digital (Alter)Natives with a Cause? — Book Review by Maarten van den Berg‘Digital (Alter)Natives with a cause?’ is a collection of four books with essays published by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, and the Dutch NGO Hivos. The books come in a beautifully designed cassette and are …
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 …
2 May 2011
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What scares a Digital Native? BlogathonWhat Scares technologized young people around the world? In an effort to present a view often not heard in traditional discourses, on Monday the 18th of April 2011, young people from across the world blogged about their fears in relation to …
25 Apr 2011
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Who the Hack?A hacker is not an evil spirit, instead he can outwit digital systems to bring about social change, writes Nishant Shah in this column published in the Indian Express on April 24, 2011.
28 Mar 2011
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I Believe that .......... should be a Right in the Digital AgeOn Monday March 21, 2011, people from three continents blogged about what they believe will/should/are rights in the digital age, as part of the "Digital Natives with a Cause?" project. From "free music" to "many identities", people have a …
7 Nov 2010
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The 'Beyond the Digital' DirectoryFor the past few months, Maesy Angelina has been sharing the insights gained from her research with Blank Noise on the activism of digital natives. The ‘Beyond the Digital’ directory offers a list of the posts on the research based on the …
12 Nov 2009
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Digital Natives with a Cause?Digital Natives With A Cause? - a product of the Hivos-CIS collaboration charts the scholarship and practice of youth and technology with a specific attention for developing countries to create a framework that consolidates existing …