New York based Henry Luce Foundation has awarded ONLINERPOL project team (Sahana Udupa, Salma Siddique, Max Kramer and Miriam Homer) with a new grant under the program, “Religion in International Affairs”, to build a multimedia installation project on digital dignity.
European Research Council has awarded project PI Sahana Udupa Proof of Concept award for the proposed AI4Dignity project. With a team of international collaborators and software architects, Udupa will develop AI4Dignity as a collaborative Artificial Intelligence model to tackle online extreme speech. For more on the award, see here (in German)
The Academic Network on Peace, Security and the United Nations, program of the Social Science Research Council, commissioned project PI Sahana Udupa to prepare a comprehensive review of current scholarly debates on hate speech, information disorder and conflict. The review, co-authored with Iginio Gagliardone, Alexandra Deem and Laura Csuka, is published here.
Under the Cambridge-LMU Strategic Partnership Program, ONLINERPOL researchers and members of the Cambridge Digital Humanities Center will meet in Cambridge to discuss research methods and ethical questions concerning digital media research.
27 June 2019
In an international workshop, “Digital media, politics and elections in India”, jointly organized by the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), Sahana Udupa will deliver the keynote address, and also participate in a public panel discussion on the topic in Singapore.
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In an invited presentation, Sahana Udupa will speak about decolonial perspectives on online extreme speech at the two-day international workshop..
A special public policy series on tackling online extreme speech edited by Sahana Udupa, Elonnai Hickok and Edward Anderson is now live on Scroll.in. Articles scan the digital sphere in India…
At the multidisciplinary workshop on youth and new media turn in politics and policy organized by the Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH) and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology…
In an invited lecture at Freie University, Berlin, Sahana Udupa will speak about the complex tangle of precarious labor, political manipulation, and fun that lies behind right-wing populist cultures online.
The Centre for Internet & Society and Project ONLINERPOL are jointly organizing an International symposium on internet speech and regulation at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.
At the international Conference on Social Media and Indian Democracy organized by the Kofi Annan Commission and Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Sahana Udupa will give a talk on digital labor and electoral politics, highlighting the role of precarious entrepreneurs and volunteers who are engaged for digital campaigning in India.
Max Kramer will participate at the Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology (CALA 2019), “Revitalization and Representation,” to be held January 23 -26, 2019, in Siem Reap, Cambodia, with the following contribution: “Online Discourse and Reformist Islam in India”
Nadja-Christina Schneider from Humboldt Universität Berlin will give a talk on Indian women’s struggle to gain access to public spaces and the interrelationship and mutual constitution of urban public space and emerging publics in contemporary India, at the Oberseminar, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich
International Workshop “Global Perspectives on Extreme Speech Online”
Papers are invited for a two-day funded workshop on online extreme speech (10-11 December 2018) organized by ONLINERPOL at the House of Artists in Munich
In a special discussion hosted by Project ONLINERPOL, for the LMU Oberseminar series, Uday Chandra, Georgetown University, Qatar, and Chandan Gowda, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, will speak about the trajectory of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India.
At the international symposium, “Politics of Participation”, organized by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, Sahana Udupa joined the panel with Asif Agha, University of Pennsylvania and Andrew Graan, University of Helsinki, and presented a paper on the participatory logics of online right wing movements.
Salma Siddique will present her work in “Rethinking World War II”, Full day symposium convened by Isabel Huaceja at 47th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison October 11-14, 2018
Salma Siddique has been invited to present a research paper at Turning Points, Two-day Symposium convened by Aswin Punathambekar at University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, September 28-29, 2018
This panel recognizes the digital turn as a paradigm shift in the anthropological study of media, and aims to push further the ethnographic knowledge into the role that digital media play in people’s everyday life and broader sociopolitical transformations.
Sahana Udupa joined the panel on “Social media, conflict and extreme speech”, with Nicole Stremlau, Head, The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, at the Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute, University of Oxford.
Recent political upheavals in Europe and the US have once again highlighted the paradoxical nature of contemporary digital communication. The celebratory discourse of digital technologies’ potential for openness and democracy is now eclipsed by the “dark side” of new media as a platform for promoting hate speech, fake news, terrorism, misogyny and intergroup conflict.
Sahana Udupa will be presenting her work on digital media and politics in India at the annual ICA conference to be held in Prague this year.
This month we speak to Craig Calhoun about the public sphere and Sunil Abraham about digital privacy.
Sahana Udupa will be presenting at the University of Helsinki’s Social and Cultural Anthropology Seminars – Spring 2018.
This month we speak with Carole McGranahan about lies and Atul Khatri about comedy.
This blog post is the second in a series of blog posts from the project “Law, religious violence and Internet and social media regulation in India” funded by ONLINERPOL.
This month we speak with Radhika Gajjala about cyberfeminism and Sofia Ashraf about online content creation.
The phenomenal expansion of Internet media in India in the last two decades has enabled new forms of political participation in the public domain, while also facilitating hitherto unimagined ways of consolidating domination and state power
This blog post is the first in a series of blog posts from the project “Law, religious violence and Internet and social media regulation in India” funded by ONLINERPOL.
Recent political upheavals in Europe and the US have once again highlighted the paradoxical nature of contemporary digital communication. The celebratory discourse of digital technologies’ potential for openness and democracy is now eclipsed by the “dark side” of new media as a platform for promoting hate speech, fake news, terrorism, misogyny and intergroup conflict.
In this episode we speak with Nick Couldry about the Mediated Construction of Reality and Nida Hasan from Change.org India about e-petitions.
Sahana Udupa will present ideas on polymedia ruptures in Asia at the international workshop on Shaping Asia/s: Connectivities, Comparisons, Collaborations, jointly hosted by the University of Beilefeld and University of Heidelberg.
Edward Anderson, University of Cambridge, will give a talk on the Indian diaspora in the UK and transnational Hindutva, at the Oberseminar, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich.
Imagine what anthropology might look like today if Marcel Mauss had chosen hospitality rather than the gift as the subject of his famous essay, in which he identified the three obligations to give, receive and return as constitutive of the gift relationship.
We have entered a new era of the divisible data subject, requiring us to rethink outdated concepts of the self, argued Nishant Shah, dean of Research at the ArtEZ Univesity, the Netherlands, at the LMU Oberseminar lecture hosted by For Digital Dignity Project ONLINERPOL. Shah said a rethinking of the concept of self is needed
Our new Podcast Episode for October is out, in which Victoria Bernal talks about digital diaspora politics and Rishi Bagree about being a right wing twitter superstar. Check it out here.
We are happy to announce that Krishanu Bhargav Neog has been selected for the Internet memes fellowship to carry out a study on memes and their competitive claims on the religious and secular, and politics of belonging in digital India. Learn more about it here.
A write up on the LMU website on ONLINERPOL project and the podcast series. http://www.en.uni-muenchen.de/news/newsarchiv/2017/udupa_podcast.html
Submit abstracts for the upcoming international symposium “Digital Politics in Millennial India” (15-17 March 2018) organized jointly by Project ONLINERPOL and IIITD Delhi. Deadline for abstracts 15 October 2017. Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich, Germany. Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi (IIIT-Delhi). Conveners: Sahana Udupa, Professor, LMU, Germany Aasim Khan, Asst. Professor, IIIT-Delhi
The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty for the Study of Culture invites applications for one postdoctoral and two doctoral positions for ONLINERPOL, a five year research project (2017-22) on political cultures of new media in India and among the diaspora. The project is funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant
Recent political upheavals in Europe and the US have once again highlighted the paradoxical nature of contemporary digital communication. The celebratory discourse of digital technologies’ potential for openness and democracy is now eclipsed by the “dark side” of new media as a platform for promoting hate speech, fake news, terrorism, misogyny and intergroup conflict. Researchers