media, information, the contemporary

Tag: ICAS: MP


  • Media Objects and Testimony

    A project under TM7 – Media and the Constitution of the Political

  • Media and the Constitution of the Political

    This project, supported by ICAS:MP, speaks to the following thematic engagements: Social Media, Data and Information Infrastructures This project looks at data and information infrastructures that have emerged from the rise of social media. Governments have been modernising data collection while addressing paper-based systems. Private companies work with a host of smaller intermediaries and advanced analytics…

  • Objects, Media Technologies, Aesthetics and Politics: Material Histories and Cultural Imaginaries, India c. 1940-1960

    This project, supported by ICAS:MP, speaks to issues of archiving and memorialization by developing an engagement with a novel and underexplored terrain of historical experience. This is the world of objects as they bear testimony to major transformations in energy use, environment, travel, bodily health and cleanliness, registers of everyday life. We seek to attend to…

  • Objects/Media Practices Collaborative Workshop, ICAS: MP and Sarai-CSDS

    ‘Objects, Media Practices, Aesthetics and Politics: Material Histories and Cultural Imaginaries, India 1940-1960’ is one of the pilot projects under the History as a Political Category (ICAS TM1) module which has been running for over four months now. This project is undertaken as an inter-modular collaboration between TM1 and TM7, Media and the Constitution of the Political. Ritwika Misra…

  • Call for Researchers: ICAS:MP, Media and the Constitution of the Political (TM 7)

    ICAS:MP, TM7 (Thematic Module 7), invites applications for junior researcher positions. These are for archival collections, ethnographic research and interviews, and legal research, under the supervision of module coordinators Ravi Vasudevan (CSDS) and Srirupa Roy (University of Goettingen). The thematic focuses of the research include: Social Media, Data and Information Infrastructures This project looks at…