Is Social The New Personal?

This Mid Year edition of the Links in the Chain newsletter talks about the question if the ‘Social is the new Personal?’ This editions editor Nilofar Ansher talks in her introduction about the fact that the word ‘media’ has the ignominy of never being called by its first name. It’s always prefixed or suffixed into playing second fiddle. Evidence? Traditional media, mass media, new media, digital media, hypermedia, social media – the list could go on with subsets. What remains common and consi...

"Digital Natives with a Cause?" - Newsletter, Vol VII

This issues touches on the topic of Digital Dinosaurs, an exploration of the non-digital by those who are digital. The authors talk about issues of the digital and non digital. So many activities we used to be part of are now either partially or fully mediated by the digital world. Does that fact elevate the computer to a position where it stands in the center of our lives? As a Digital Native, are there areas of your life which the digital hasn’t touched? Do any of you still write by hand pe...

"Digital Natives with a Cause?" - Newsletter, Vol VI

This issue give us an insight into two different dimension of the digital natives programme. After the three workshops and one international conference it was time to get all the knowledge and new insight together in a book. The editors came together for a write shop, and here is a report. Nilofar also gives an interesting insight into digital activism.

"Digital Natives with a Cause?" - Newsletter, Vol IV

For everyone who is interested in learning more about the Digital Natives who form part of the "Digital Natives with a Cause?" community. The Newsletter includes opinion posts by participants from the three workshops as well as the facilitators, interviews with them, comics and cartoons highlighting current issues affecting the community, as well as current news and discussions happening at the project website, www.digitalnatives.in. The 4th volume had a theme of "practices acr...

"Digital Natives with a Cause?" newsletter Volume III

Welcome to volume number three issue one of “Links in the Chain”. This issue and the next will have as a common theme some questions of identity and its relation with digital technologies. We have reached a point in our technological trajectory where the analogy of the “tool” falls short of describing our relationship with digital technologies. In our workshops the idea that digital technologies are tools for achieving social goals was presented as a way to change the emphasis from the techno...

"Digital Natives with a Cause?" newsletter Volume II

To mark the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia we decided on “connections” as the theme for the 2nd volume (containing three issues) of Links in the Chain. Connections are one of the defining features of a wiki website, as the interlinked nature of pages or entries allow for easy navigation and accessibility to networks of information from any point of entry. Connections are also a defining feature of the “Digital Natives with a Cause?” research project. There is the author–-reader connection that...

"Digital Natives with a Cause?" newsletter Volume I

"Links in the Chain" is a bi-monthly publication which highlights the projects, ideas and news of the "Digital Natives with a Cause?" community members. The first volume was introductory and experimental in nature. Here are the two issues of volume I:Links in The Chain - Volume ILinks in the Chain - Volume I en Issue II