The researchers@work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society produces and supports pioneering and sustained trans-disciplinary research on key thematics at the intersections of internet and society; organise and incubate networks of and fora for researchers and practitioners studying and making internet in India; and contribute to development of critical digital pedagogy, research methodology, and creative practice.
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The researchers@work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society undertakes and supports research, incubation, and pedagogic works at the intersections of internet and society.
We take ‘internet’ as a shorthand for the unevenly implemented and governed global communication system that uses internet protocol suite (including TCP/IP and others) for networking devices and networks worldwide, and the ecosystem of socio-technological practices, institutions, and industries that constitute it.
We undertake grounded investigations and strategic interventions to document, analyse, and respond to transforming social realities and challenges emerging from entanglement of digital devices, data, and networks with various aspects of everyday lives.
We are interested in producing local and contextual accounts of interactions, negotiations, and resolutions between internet and digital technologies on one hand, and socio-material and geo-political structures on the other.
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Bahujan Digital Publishing Infrastructures
Formal knowledge production, media, and technology in India are dominated and hegemonised by elite oppressor castes (the Savarnas). The exclusion...
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Future of the Commons: A Conversation on Artificial Intelligence, Indian Languages, and Archives Conference Report
Organized by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, and MKCL, the conference explored the development of localized or Indic...
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Material Cyborgs; Asserted Boundaries: Formulating the Cyborg as a Translator
Download the paper here. Read the original paper published by Taylor & Francis here. I, the cyborg The cyborg, a...
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New Modes and Sites of Humanities Practice
Sections 01. Digital Humanities in India? 02. A Question of Digital Humanities 03. Reading from a Distance – Data as...
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RBI and Regulation of Digital Financial Services in India, 2012-2016
1. Introduction 2. Mobile Banking in India 2.1. Customer Enrolment Issues identified by the RBI 2.2. Technical Issues identified by...
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Asia in the Edges: A Narrative Account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School in Bangalore
This is the narrative account of the experiments and ideas that shaped the second Summer School, “The Asian Edge” which...
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
Click here to read the full introduction.Click here to download the Monograph. Pornography & the Law – A Call for...
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We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
Launch of Public Juris (An Online Archive of Legal Resources) — by Aparna Balachandran — last modified Apr 24, 2015...
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We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
Rationale All of these, in some way or the other, hint at new models of cyborgification which we need to...
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The Last Cultural Mile
This monograph provides a set of four case studies of the Indian State. The case studies address four technologies, television,...
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CIS featured in the Report on Research and Funding Landscape within the Arts and Humanities in India
Research Councils UK had undertaken a mapping exercise to gain a better understanding of the research and funding landscape within...