[after-media] Sarai - Social Media Project - Research Updates #01

[The Sarai Programme]

Dear all,

The Sarai Programme has recently granted research support for short term
studies on topics related to social and digital media to a group of seven
researchers from across India.

Here are the introductions to their proposed study by four of the
researchers:

*Anand Kumar Jha - 'Shooting with the Interface'*

"Users access the web through the interface generating an event, captured
as a log in the server. Millions of these events get parsed through filters
to be analyzed on dashboards, another interface. Dashboards then optimize
the user facing interface to streamline and increase the number of events
happening… I was interested to find out if there were more ways in which an
interface mimics the camera."

URL: <http://sarai.net/the-so-far-of-shooting-with-the-interface/>


*Darshana Sreedhar - 'Digital Divide, Online Offense: Malayalee House,
“Pandit Phenomenon” and Morality Debates in Contemporary Kerala' *
"My project looks at two contemporary phenomena in the Kerala mediascape —
the emergence of “internet celebrity” Santhosh Pandit, and the recent
reality TV show, Malayalee House, both of which have been amplified by the
digital-social media’s potential to unsettle intended trajectories and uses
of media circulation. In corollary, these have also inaugurated new ways of
thinking about what it is to be a “media celebrity” in Kerala."

URL: <http://sarai.net/digital-divide-online-offense-introduction/>

*Rashmi M - 'Mobile Phones and Media Consumption Practices: A Brief
Introduction to the Project'*

"This project tries to understand the changing socio dynamics of access to
media content in India with the spread of mobile phones, and intends to
trace the new techno social networks of users and other actors that form to
gain such access. The research focus will be on users and user groups with
limited technological means and access (such as security guards, auto
drivers and vegetable vendors etc)."

URL: <
http://sarai.net/mobile-phones-and-media-consumption-practices-introduction/
>

*Sandeep Mertia - 'Situating Social Media in Rural india'*

"While the problems of technological determinism, digital divide and the
larger politics of knowledge and development are multifaceted and evoke
extreme opinions ranging from technophilia to dystopia, there are some key
ideas like interpretive flexibility of technology and context sensitive
appropriation and access, which could help us engage in a nuanced debate on
the relationships of society and technology. In case of ICTs, the
interpretive flexibility is further problematized by their ability to
liquidate space and time."

URL: <http://sarai.net/situating-social-media-in-rural-india/>

Regards,

*The Sarai Programme*
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
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