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BioScope Volume 10 Issue 1, June 2019

We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 10. no. 1. With the winds of authoritarianism sweeping across democracies in South Asia as elsewhere, the question…

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Dec 10, 2019 | Sarai
Social Media: Contemporary Histories and Archaeologies

This project explores the remarkable transformation signalled by social media in the contemporary era. We are interested in new circuits of social communication, cultural consumption and…

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Sep 20, 2019 | Sumedha Chakravarthy
Cybermohalla

Cybermohalla”, a network of dispersed labs for experimentation and exploration among young working class people in different neighbourhoods of the city, that was initiated by Ankur:…

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Sep 20, 2019 | Sumedha Chakravarthy
Media and Information Infrastructures

Infrastructure has come to be an increasingly important object of social science and cultural-historical research. From roads and railways to river and seaborne transport, from dams…

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Sep 20, 2019 | Sumedha Chakravarthy
Hinglish

Sarai-CSDS and SOAS, London launched a three-year British Academy funded project called “Hinglish: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Hindi-English Bilingualism” in early 2013. The project…

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Sep 20, 2019 | Sumedha Chakravarthy
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…

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Sep 19, 2019 | Sumedha Chakravarthy
Information and Society

This colloquium, early in the history of the Information and Society Research Cluster at Sarai-CSDS, posits that the ‘sensor-census-censor’ triad may be a useful way in…

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Sep 19, 2019 | Sumedha Chakravarthy