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August 19, 2021  |  In RESEARCH

Resolution

Originally published on A New AI Lexicon on 18th August 2021. \ ˌre-zə-ˈlü-shən  \ Definition: the act or process of resolving: such as the act of analyzing a complex notion into simpler ones the act of determining the process or capability of making distinguishable the individual parts of an object, closely adjacent optical images, or sources of […]

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April 14, 2020  |  In RESEARCH

Orphaning

Paper Title: “The Living Dead”: Orphaning in Aadhaar-enabled Distribution of Welfare Pensions in RajasthanAuthors: Ranjit SinghJournal: PUBLIC Journal: Art Culture IdeasVolume: 30Issue: 60Pages: 92-104Year: 2020 Abstract:  This paper follows the mutual shaping of the lives of citizens and their data records to illustrate how precarious forms of citizenship emerge in the use of biometrics-based data infrastructures for governance. It presents a case […]

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July 7, 2019  |  In RESEARCH

Managing Aadhaar’s Scale

Paper Title: Give Me a Database and I Will Raise the Nation-StateAuthors: Ranjit SinghJournal: South Asia: Journal of South Asian StudiesVolume: 42Issue: 3Pages: 501-518 Year: 2019 Abstract:  This paper draws on an ethnographic study of Aadhaar, India’s biometrics-based national identification infrastructure, to investigate how members of its design team conceptualised and understood their techno-bureaucratic enterprise of assigning unique numbers to Indian […]

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July 10, 2018  |  In RESEARCH

Following Digital Directions

Chapter Title: Getting “There” from the Ever-changing “Here”: Following Digital Directions Authors: Ranjit Singh, Chris Hesselbein, Jessica Price, and Michael Lynch Edited Volume: digitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies Publisher: Princeton University Press Pages: 280-299 Year: 2019 Abstract:  Many familiar debates in STS, philosophy, and communication and information studies revolve around the relationship between formal […]

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