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IIRC: Reflections on IRC16
Note: IIRC stands for if I remember correctly in ancient internet acronym culture. Thanks to Sebastian for the inspiration. For...
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Internet Researchers’ Conference 2016 (IRC16) – Selected Sessions
Session Selection Process We received 23 superb session proposals for the IRC16. All the teams that submitted sessions were invited...
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IRC16 – Proposed Session – #PoliticsOnSocialMedia
Session Indian politics had witnessed the entry of new social movements in the 1970s, adding a whole set of new...
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IRC16 – Proposed Session – #KnowledgeCommunity (Computing, Community and Knowledge Production: Problems and Prospects)
Session Our session will approach the history of digital knowledge production and dissemination in India from the standpoint of community-oriented...
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IRC16 – Proposed Session – #WikiShadows (Techno-Political Contours of Knowledge Production on Wikipedia)
Session Wikipedia is a group project, and people in the group need to have separate pages to discuss changes and...
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IRC16 – Proposed Session – #SmartThings (Conceptualizing Internet/Digital Technologies in the Age of “Smartness”)
Session With the increasing focus on making things – devices, services, cities, even planets – smart, there is a need...
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IRC16 – Proposed Session – #MinimalComputing
Session The triumphal mythic narrative of India’s relatively high and rapid rates of Internet penetration is underpinned by the country’s...
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IRC16 – Proposed Session – #LiterarySpaces (Online Literary Spaces in India)
Session The last decade has seen a slow but steady emergence of online literary spaces in India, marked by the...
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IRC16 – Proposed Session – #DisruptiveTransport (Aggregators, Ownership, Tracking, Space, Internet Models)
Session Transportation has been seeing disruptions through Internet aggregators using complex models which nobody understands in detail. This is primarily...
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IRC16 – Proposed Session – #DigitalDesires
Session We propose to design the panel as a workshop with three paper presentations followed by an open discussion with...
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