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Digital habits: How and why we tweet, share and like
There aren’t always rational explanations for the ways in which we behave on networks. While there are trend spotting sciences and pattern recognition methods which try to make sense of how and why we behave in these strange ways on networks, they generally fail to actually help us understand why #Facebook Inc #Google Inc. #SocialMedia #TheLongView
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Social media, SMS are not why NE students left Bangalore
I woke up one morning to find that I was living in a city of crisis. Bangalore, where the largest public preoccupations to date have been about bad roads, stray dogs, and occasionally, the lack of night-life, the city was suddenly a space that people wanted to flee and occupy #Bangalore #ConnectTheDots #exodus #Northeastern Students #SMS #social media
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Internet censorship: Anonymous can’t be just harmful hackers
If there was ever an interesting time for people concerned with freedom of speech and expression to live in, it is now, and it is definitely in India. It has been a series of battles the last couple of years, where a slightly out-dated government machinery has been trying to #Anonymous #Freedom of Expression #India #InMyOpinion #Internet censorship
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How Facebook is blatantly abusing our trust
‘Don’t fix it, if it ain’t broken’ is not an adage Facebook seems to subscribe to. Facebook is just re-emerging from the controversies around how it conducted the voting on its new privacy policies, when it goes and digs itself deeper by trying to push down its email services down the #data #facebook #Facebook email #Facebook features #InsecureNet #privacy
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Beyond Anonymous: Shit people say on Internet piracy
Editorial comment: This post is a series of provocations around piracy, censorship and the state of Internet in India. Like all good tasting things, these observations need to be taken with a pinch of salt. But it is the hope of the author that this serves as a response to #BitTorrent #Censorship #InsecureNet #Internet Relay Chat #Piracy #Technology/Internet #The Pirate Bay
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Open letter to Kolaveri Di makers: How Dare You!
When it comes to piracy, you are sure to have an opinion. You might either make a virtue out of it, talking about cultural commons and collaborative conditions of production. Or you might vilify it as the social fault-line that is destroying the very pillars of commerce and cultural negotiations. No #File sharing #High Court of Chennai #InsecureNet #Internet Relay Chat #Internet Service Providers #Kolaveri di #ThatsJustWrong
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Non human intelligence is closer than you think!
In one of the research projects that I have been involved in, I was recently a part of a jury, for a contest which required on-line voting. It sounded like a fun thing, giving the participants a chance to bring in their inherited networks and also expanding the reach of #artificial intelligence #Bots #Code #Computer #HowThisWorks #Networks #non-human actor #social media
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Sharing in the time of Facebook, or why I’m not a pirate
It is now over a month that my favourite network has been dead. Library.nu the rare space for sharing of academic resources to a free and open community has succumbed to the pressures of publishing industry stalwarts who, in their quest for promoting the knowledge industry, are killing sources through which #facebook #File sharing #InsecureNet #Internet #Piracy #social network #The Pirate Bay
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Why your Facebook stalker is not the real problem
We live in networked conditions. This is a statement that can now be taken at face-value, and immediately explains our highly connected, inter-meshed environments. Especially within the digital world, the World Wide Web has become synonymous with social networking systems, where increasingly all our access, communication and interaction is located within #InsecureNet #Internet #Internet Service Providers #privacy #social network #Social network service