by Chinar Mehta | Sep 30, 2025 | Events, Guest Lecture
It comes down to the problem! That was the key takeaway from the guest lecture we had at our department last week, by Achyutha Sharma, the head of UX Research at Flipkart. Many skills make a good researcher, but an important skill is the ability to ask the right...
by Chinar Mehta | Sep 26, 2025 | Faculty Spotlight, Publications & Conferences, Research Roundup
With rapid digital transformation, how could we, as citizens of India, better understand our roles and actions when it comes to the realm of privacy? More importantly, what safeguards apply to us within this realm? These are questions that have puzzled us for a while...
by Chinar Mehta | Jul 26, 2025 | Events, Workshop
A two-day workshop titled ‘Unpacking the Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Digital Public Infrastructure’ was organised at IIIT Bangalore in association with the University of Amsterdam on 24th and 25th July, 2025. The workshop aimed to bring together researchers thinking...
by Chinar Mehta | Oct 8, 2024 | Faculty Spotlight, News, Research Roundup
This year, no platform scored more than six out of the maximum 10 points The Fairwork India Ratings 2024 report, which analyses the work conditions of platform workers on digital labour platforms in India, draws a picture of aggregators who are non-committal to...
by Chinar Mehta | Feb 8, 2024 | Events, Symposium
Artwork by Shivangi Garg, M.Sc. Digital Society Alumna (Class of 2022), incorporating from art by Lena Tokens. More on this artwork here About the symposium: What are the salient features, and the emerging opportunities and urgent challenges, of the digital society we...
