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Department of Social Sciences and Humanities. IIIT-Delhi.

 Delhi, India
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Joined January 2019
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tcpd.ashoka.edu.in IIITD students are encouraged to find out more about the TCPD, look at projects and their blog. #computationalsocialscience #itandsociety
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Delighted to host @TCPD_Ashoka at @IiitdS , look forward to the "How do we make sense of everyday politics?" by Dr Priyamvada Trivedi and Yusuf Sait
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Delighted to announce that our Introduction (by Faculty from @IiitdS) "Millennial India" is now Open Access! @4digitaldignity @AaptiEcolab
Shriram Venkatraman (@venkatshriram) profile pictureShriram Venkatraman@venkatshriram29 Sep 2019
Now Open Access - '"Millennial India": Global Digital Politics in Context' to @academia! academia.edu/40468184/_Mille…
"Millennial India": Global Digital Politics in Context

"Millennial India": Global Digital Politics in Context

In this special issue, we examine the two decades of digital media expansion in India, the world’s second largest Internet user domain, to propose the idea of “millennial India.” Millennial India...

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Thank you for hosting this, for anyone interest in details regarding the work by Aasim (managing this account, please DM us). We hope to have @Emmargarnett and @rikshaa also present this at @IIITDelhi soon.
Urban Ecologies (@UEcologies) profile pictureUrban Ecologies@UEcologies21 Sep 2019
Atmospheric politics of the #urban Stimulating #RC21delhi session on #toxic #air: materialising #uncertainty (Emma Garnett @Emmargarnett), indigenous technoscience (Rohit Negi @rikshaa), mediations (Aasim Khan), histories (Awadhendra Sharan) #UrbanEcologies
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PS: DM us if you have access issues.
TV & New Media (@tvnewmedia) profile pictureTV & New Media@tvnewmedia11 Sep 2019
For a limited time, our upcoming #SpecialIssue, "Digital Politics in Millennial India" will be Open Access! Be sure to check out "'Millennial India': Global Digital Politics in Context" to learn more about the issue - bit.ly/2kc6cJo @4digitaldignity @venkatshiram
Thank you Sriram, we are doing our bit, look forward to more conversations if you are in Delhi sometime.
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Looks like good research being done on the future of Work and new technology. Thanks for sharing...
Sarayu Natarajan (@iissarayu) profile pictureSarayu Natarajan@iissarayu18 Sep 2019
Where our colleague Bhavani Seetharaman examines the #AB5 legislation that offers protections to platform gig economy workers, and its implications for India. Go read! medium.com/aapti/future-of-w…

Future of Workers: The California AB5 legislation and the prospects for India

Bhavani Seetharaman

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This will be of interest to media and politics scholars of India, esp focus on the youth and democracy cc @louisetillin @TaberezNeyazi @joyopal @dnaseemullah @PoMoGandhi @rikshaa @nha3383 @MikeDwyerMike @edanderson101 please share
TV & New Media (@tvnewmedia) profile pictureTV & New Media@tvnewmedia11 Sep 2019
For a limited time, our upcoming #SpecialIssue, "Digital Politics in Millennial India" will be Open Access! Be sure to check out "'Millennial India': Global Digital Politics in Context" to learn more about the issue - bit.ly/2kc6cJo @4digitaldignity @venkatshiram
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Also of interest to friends in the press, @cyrilsam @ganeshapol @Amannama @newsclickin @narayani_basu @scroll_in . Also @IIITDelhi we did this...please share widely.
TV & New Media (@tvnewmedia) profile pictureTV & New Media@tvnewmedia11 Sep 2019
For a limited time, our upcoming #SpecialIssue, "Digital Politics in Millennial India" will be Open Access! Be sure to check out "'Millennial India': Global Digital Politics in Context" to learn more about the issue - bit.ly/2kc6cJo @4digitaldignity @venkatshiram
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Delighted to see this come out at such an opportune time; this issue moves the conversation from 'millennials' to millennial India. cc @NotFaiz @NayanikaM @MahtabNama @RaphaelSusewind @jtmartelli @rahulbot @KapoorAstha @thesangeetkumar @ralphschroeder @bganesh11 please share.
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Well said. At @IiitdS we offer courses on critical thinking before we begin our social sciences module. We are happy to see someone's breaking the myth of 'soft skills'...
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (@MIT_SHASS) profile pictureMIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences@MIT_SHASS24 Aug 2019
Anant Argawal (@agarwaleduMIT), EECS Prof / CEO of @edXOnline, on why the critical thinking, communication skills, and perspectives gained in the #humanistic fields are hard-won, rigorously maintained #PowerSkills, vital for success: bit.ly/MITPowerSkills
Thanks Rahul, we are the triple IIIT-Delhi @IIITDelhi, hope we can stay in touch. Please do share any ideas in future, and we look forward to meeting you again soon!
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Of course, we are good at this! But how do we do things that are 'responsible computing' . It was wonderful to have you speak to our students today! cc @MITIndiaConf @EthanZ
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Delighted to have Rahul Bhargava @rahulbot from MIT Civic Media Lab @civicMIT speak at IIIT-Delhi on impact of technology on society. And Responsible Computing.
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Julian Thomas@juliant0929 Jul 2019
The filter that matters is the one in our heads.... timely piece from ⁦@snurb_dot_info⁩ smh.com.au/business/companie…
Investigate the root cause of polarisation - don’t just blame social media filter bubbles

Investigate the root cause of polarisation - don’t just blame social media filter bubbles

We do not need to have another debate about the impact of algorithms, but a meaningful discussion about the complex causes of political polarisation.

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Introducing @AaptiEcolab. We think about social media and environmental campaigns. cc @iihsin @RaphaelSusewind @louisetillin @Jhatkaadotorg @Namma_Bengaluru @hashiyaarai @comedialab_in @pinkychandran @rohinimohanET @IIITDelhi @MahtabNama @NotFaiz @CurleyStreet @joyopal
ecolab_aapti (@AaptiEcolab) profile pictureecolab_aapti@AaptiEcolab13 Jul 2019
Dr Sarayu Natarajan @iissarayu introduces @AaptiEcolab project, with Dr Aasim Khan from @IiitdS. Welcome to our 1st workshop #ecolab
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Worrying trends in World Politics: The US says it has inserted offensive malware into Russia’s power grid - via @techreview technologyreview.com/f/61378…
The US says it has inserted offensive malware into Russia’s power grid

The US says it has inserted offensive malware into Russia’s power grid

It’s a step up from previous efforts that focused more on reconnaissance than attack. The news: The US has deployed code inside Russia’s power grid and other targets as part of its work to push back...

technologyreview.com
Interesting, IT and society from a different perspective
Evgeny Morozov (@evgenymorozov) profile pictureEvgeny Morozov
@evgenymorozov23 Apr 2019
This new paper on the intertwinement of philanthro‐capitalism, solutionism, and digital humanitarianism is very good onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Informed analysis of what's happening with FB and #election2019
Venkat Ananth (@venkatananth) profile pictureVenkat Ananth
@venkatananth2 Apr 2019
Replying to @venkatananth
What is their *likely* behaviour violation? This. “posting massive amounts of content across a network of Groups and Pages in order to drive traffic to websites they are affiliated with in order to make money” - Just the posting of content. NOT the content itself.
PowerPoints in #academia
Mihai Surdeanu (@msurd) profile pictureMihai Surdeanu@msurd30 Mar 2019
A historic event:
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