International Symposium on Digital Politics in Millennial India @ IIIT Delhi
Abhay Anand | March 19, 2018 | 11:06 AM IST | 1 min read
NEW DELHI, MARCH 19: The national capital witnessed the grand launch of the International Symposium titled ‘Digital Politics in Millenial India’ at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) jointly with LMU Germany.
Through this symposium, the aim is to provide scholars, researchers and digital media activists with a platform to unpack the Internet media as information sources, rumor machines, effective affinity spaces, vehicles of propaganda, and objects of state policy as they are shaping the political present.
The symposium started with an introductory speech by Shriram Venkatraman, Assistant Professor at Centre for IT & Society, IIIT-Delhi followed by welcome address by Pankaj Jalote, Director, IIIT-Delhi and opening remarks by Sahana Udupa, Professor of Media Anthropology, LMU (Germany). Then, the keynote speakers Mark Allen Peterson Professor, Anthropology & International Studies, University of Miami and Sofia Ashraf, Rapper & Singer gave their respective speeches. The inaugural day ended with closing note by Aasim Khan, Assistant Professor at Centre for IT& Society, IIIT-Delhi.
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