Forwarding for some of you may be interested ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "The Sarai Programme" <[email protected]> Date: Mar 11, 2014 9:40 PM Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Call for Proposals: Sarai-CSDS Short Term Research Projects in Social and Digital Media To: <[email protected]> Cc:
> > Call for Proposals: Sarai-CSDS Short Term Research Projects in Social and Digital Media > > > The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, invites proposals from individuals for research projects on contemporary social and digital media, its ecologies and histories. Research is supported by a project grant from the Indian Council of Social Science Research. > > > We are interested in the following themes: > > > Legal research: cases related to circulation of images and messages > > Platform: design, participation, revenue, alternatives > > Media streams: delivery and distribution of media (cinema, news, music, > > images) > > Governance, media infrastructures, censorship and leakage > > Censorship, government and commercial regulations and public campaigns > > Intermedia junctions: screen cultures, interface design, data streams > > Memory: storage, databases, retrieval, devices > > Online video as archive > > Financial flows and social media > > Issues of privacy/disclosure > > Social Media campaigns: organized politics, petitions, activism > > Practice-based research on software and multimedia platforms > > > Mobile Phone culture and effects > > > In select cases, applications from themes beyond the above list will be considered. > > > This research project takes inspiration from the pioneering Sarai Independent Fellowship programme that initiated and supported a host of individual researchers working on contemporary culture: > > > http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/newsletter_mail.sarai.net/2005-October/000142.html > > and > > http://preview.sarai.net/community/fellow.htm#06 > > > Sarai seeks once again to support a diverse community of researchers: academics, practitioners (filmmakers, software programmers, artists, journalists etc), and independent scholars. Like the previous programme, we propose to mobilise collaborative models of research: we expect selected researchers to interact both with Sarai's in-house research group and a larger community, and deposit their materials in the Sarai archive for public access and use. > > Researchers do not have to be resident in Delhi, but will contribute regularly with postings on their research in online platforms. There will be a final paper and presentation in a workshop at Delhi. > > > Conditions: > > Applicants should be resident in India, and should have an Indian Bank Account and Income Tax PAN in her/his name. > > The research project will be available for up to six months and for a maximum amount of Rs. 100,000/-. > > The research projects will run from May 1, 2014 to October 31, 2014. > > > You need to send: > > A proposal (max 1000 words) > > A two page work-plan > > An updated CV > > Two work samples > > > Please email these as PFD file to [email protected] with "Application for Short Term Research Project" in the subject header. > > > Last date for applications: April 10, 2014 > > > > > > _____________________________________ > > The Newsletter of the Sarai Programme, > 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054. www.sarai.net > > www.facebook.com/sarai.net > > To subscribe: send a blank email to > [email protected] with subscribe in the subject header. > Directions to Sarai: We are 5 mins. from the Civil Lines Metro Station. > > -- -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
