[Reader-list] Fwd: Social Media Research Workshop, August 12, 2016

Tue Aug 9 02:31:32 CDT 2016

As part of the third and final cycle of Sarai’s Social Media Research
Fellowship, since March this year, short-term research fellows
<http://sarai.net/short-term-research-projects-in-social-media-selected-proposals-2016/>
have been studying different aspects of digital and social media. On *Friday,
12 August, 2016* we are organising a workshop for the fellows to present
and discuss their research with a select group of discussants. The workshop
will be held at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur
Road, Civil Lines.

Limited seats are available to take part in the workshop. To register,
please fill up this *form
<https://docs.google.com/a/sarai.net/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRI2Rhi6C74nAXQ-BMAz4GG0RY4XseoOHrGOd4oS8ku_Gj2A/viewform>*
.

Below are the links to the research updates shared by the research fellows,
and the schedule of the presentations.

*Digital Networks and their Incremental Consumption within Informal
Settlements*

*Swati Janu *

– 10 Rs Recharge: Incrementality in Digital Consumption within Informal
Urban Settlements
<http://sarai.net/10-rs-recharge-incrementality-in-digital-consumption-within-informal-urban-settlements/>

– Data, Downloads and Gaming Dens: Digital Networks in Informal Settlements
<http://sarai.net/data-downloads-and-gaming-dens-digital-networks-in-informal-settlements/>

– Mapping Sharing Networks and Cyber Corners in Informal Settlements
<http://sarai.net/mapping-sharing-networks-and-cyber-corners-in-informal-settlements/>

– Daily Mobile Recharges to Water Tankers: Deconstructing the
Infrastructure of Insecurity
<http://sarai.net/daily-mobile-recharges-to-water-tankers-deconstructing-the-infrastructure-of-insecurity/>

*A Practice Perspective on Technologies Used in Transportation Studies*

*Onkar Hoysala *

– A Practice Perspective on Technologies Used in Transportation Studies:
Introduction
<http://sarai.net/a-practice-perspective-on-technologies-used-in-transportation-studies-introduction/>

– Data, Contextualisation, and Simulation Design: Findings from Pilot
Interviews
<http://sarai.net/data-contextualisation-and-simulation-design-findings-from-pilot-interviews/>

– The Case of the Missing Data
<http://sarai.net/the-case-of-the-missing-data/>

– Context is King: Contextualisation of Models and Simulations
<http://sarai.net/context-is-king-contextualisation-of-models-and-simulations/>

*Broadcast to Broadband: Televisual Experiences in the Age of the Digital*

*Ritika Pant *

– Broadcast to Broadband: Televisual Experiences in the Age of the Digital
<http://sarai.net/broadcast-to-broadband-televisual-experiences-in-the-age-of-the-digital/>

– Unbundling the Bundle: Distribution of Televisual Content via Broadband
Services
<http://sarai.net/unbundling-the-bundle-distribution-of-televisual-content-via-broadband-services/>

– Idiot Box to Smart TV? – Televisual Aesthetics in the Digital Realms
<http://sarai.net/idiot-box-to-smart-tv-televisual-aesthetics-in-the-digital-realms/>

– Fans without Borders: Tracing Transnational Digital Fandom on Television
<http://sarai.net/fans-without-borders-tracing-transnational-digital-fandom-on-television/>

*Culture of ‘Downloading’ in Khandesh Region and the Story of Transfer of
Media: An Auto-Ethnographic Study*

*Shiva Thorat*

– ‘Culture of Downloading’ in Khandesh region and the Story of Transfer of
Media – An Auto-Ethnographic Study
<http://sarai.net/culture-of-downloading-in-khandesh-region-and-the-story-of-transfer-of-media-an-auto-ethnographic-study/>

– Identity and Download Culture: Revolution or Farce?
<http://sarai.net/identity-and-the-transformation-of-a-work-revolution-or-farce/>

*The Returned: The Rise of B Movie Cinephilia*

*Vibhushan Subba*

– The Returned: The Rise of B-movie Cinephilia
<http://sarai.net/the-returned-the-rise-of-b-movie-cinephilia/>

– Gunda, an unexpected journey: Tracking Cinephilia Undead
<http://sarai.net/gunda-an-unexpected-journey-tracking-cinephilia-undead/>

– Digital Ghosts: Spectral Presences on YouTube
<http://sarai.net/digital-ghosts-spectral-presences-on-youtube/>

– Embalming the Obscure: Unpacking Cinephilia Undead
<http://sarai.net/embalming-the-obscure-unpacking-cinephilia-undead/>

*Media and Mobilization: Digital Media and the Shia Public Sphere in West
Bengal*

*Epsita Halder *

– Media and Mobilization: Digital Media and the Shia Public Sphere in West
Bengal
<http://sarai.net/media-and-mobilization-digital-media-and-the-shia-public-sphere-in-west-bengal/>

– Mourning Martyrdom on Facebook: A Cyber Imagined Community
<http://sarai.net/mourning-martyrdom-on-facebook-a-cyber-imagined-community/>

– The Attentive Heart and Its Apparatuses – Facebook, Bluetooth, WhatsApp
<http://sarai.net/the-attentive-heart-and-its-apparatuses-facebook-bluetooth-whatsapp/>

<http://sarai.net/the-attentive-heart-and-its-apparatuses-facebook-bluetooth-whatsapp/>–
Decree and Devotion: Sacred Property on Internet
<http://sarai.net/decree-and-devotion-sacred-property-on-internet/>

* <http://sarai.net/decree-and-devotion-sacred-property-on-internet/>*

*Digital Identities: The Online Circulation of Bodo VCD Films and Music
Videos *

*Ankush Bhuyan   *

– Digital Identities: The Online Circulation of Bodo VCD films and Music
Videos
<http://sarai.net/digital-identities-the-online-circulation-of-bodo-vcd-films-and-music-videos/>

– The Quest for Bodoland: Social Media in the Time of a Separatist Movement
– Part One
<http://sarai.net/the-quest-for-bodoland-social-media-in-the-time-of-a-separatist-movement-part-one/>

– The Quest for Bodoland: Social Media in the Time of a Separatist Movement
– Part Two
<http://sarai.net/the-quest-for-bodoland-social-media-in-the-time-of-a-separatist-movement-part-two/>

*Workshop Schedule*

9:30 to 10 AM:

Tea and Opening Remarks

10:00 to 10:40:

Ritika Pant, *Broadcast to Broadband: Televisual Experiences in the Age of
the Digital*

10:40 to 11:20:

Onkar Hoysala, *A Practice Perspective on Technologies Used in
Transportation Studies*

11:20 to 11:40:

Tea

11:40 to 12:20:

Swati Janu, *Digital Networks and their Incremental Consumption within
Informal Settlements*

12:20 to 1:00:

Shiva Thorat, *Culture of ‘Downloading’ in Khandesh Region and the Story of
Transfer of Media: An Auto-Ethnographic Study*

1:00 to 2:00:

Lunch

2:00 to 2:40:

Epsita Halder, *Media and Mobilization: Digital Media and the Shia Public
Sphere in West Bengal*

2:40 to 3:20:

Ankush Bhuyan, *Digital Identities: The Online Circulation of Bodo VCD
Films and Music Videos*

3:20 to 3:40:

Tea

3:40 to 4:20:

Vibhushan Subba, *The Returned: The Rise of B Movie Cinephilia *

4:20 to 5:00:

Closing Remarks and Discussion

URL: http://sarai.net/social-media-research-workshop-2016/

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