Irc Sessions

#LiterarySpaces

Arup Chatterjee & Puthiya Purayil Sneha

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The last decade has seen a slow but steady emergence of online literary spaces in India, marked by the ubiquitous nature of the internet and digital technologies, growing…

#PoliticsOnSocialMedia

Rinku Lamba, Rajarshi Dasgupta, Mohinder Singh, Valerian Rodrigues & Shefali Jha

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Indian politics had witnessed the entry of new social movements in the 1970s, adding a…

#FutureBazaars

Maitrayee Deka, Adam Arvidsson, Rohini Lakshané & Ravi Sundaram

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Up till now digital technologies have mostly served to create new markets opportunities for the large capitalist monopolies like…

#WikiShadows (Techno-Political Contours of Knowledge Production on Wikipedia)

Tanveer Hasan & Rahmanuddin Shaik

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#FollowTheMedium

Zeenab Aneez & Neha Mujumdar

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It was media theorist Marshall McLuhan who popularised the phrase ‘the medium is the message’; to him, different kinds of media engage the senses in different ways, affecting how we…

#DigitalDesires

Silpa Mukherjee, Ankita Deb & Rahul Kumar

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We propose to design the panel as a workshop with three paper presentations followed by an open discussion with the house exploring the key question of media objects‟…

#DigitalLiteraciesAtTheMargins

Aakash Solanki, Sandeep Mertia & Rashmi M

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The session intends to initiate a discussion on digital literacies in the wake of ‘Digital India’ programme drawing on the empirical insights…

#InternetMovements

Becca Savory, Sarah McKeever & Shaunak Sen

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Since its early days the Internet has been conceived in terms of both movement and landscape — from “cyberspace” to the “Information Superhighway” — and in…

#WebOfGenealogies

Ishita Tiwary, Sandeep Mertia & Siddharth Narrain

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The Internet today, as we know, is one of the most challenging socio-technical systems to understand and theorise. As a hybrid medium that…

#ManyPublicsOfInternet

Sailen Routray & Khetrimayum Monish Singh

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The discussion in this session will focus on the cultures of practices around digital / information networks. The objective would be to open up the…