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Performing Gender, Doing Politics: Social Media and Women Election Workers in Kerala and Tamil Nadu

Drupa Dinnie Charles, Azhagu Meena, Simiran Lalvani, Syeda Zainab Akbar, Divya Siddarth, Joyojeet Pal

ICTD 2020 | June 2020

Editor(s): Carleen Maitland, Monica Villavicencio Cabezas

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Digital Divine: Technology use by Indian Spiritual Sects

Meena Azhagu, Varuni Bhatia, Joyojeet Pal

ICTD 2020 | June 2020

Editor(s): Carleen Maitland, Monica Villavicencio Cabezas

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From Greetings to Corruption: Politicians, Political Parties, and Tweeting in India

Lia Bozarth, Anmol Panda, Ceren Budak, Joyojeet Pal

ICTD 2020 | June 2020

Editor(s): Carleen Maitland, Monica Villavicencio Cabezas

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Engaging the Crowd: Social Movement Building via Online Bystander Mobilization

Divya Siddarth, Joyojeet Pal

ICTD 2020 | June 2020

Editor(s): Carleen Maitland, Monica Villavicencio Cabezas

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Affording Extremes: Incivility, Social Media and Democracy in the Indian Context

Anmol Panda, Sunandan Chakraborty, Noopur Raval, Han Zhang, Mugdha Mohapatra, Joyojeet Pal

ICTD 2020 | June 2020

Editor(s): Carleen Maitland, Monica Villavicencio Cabezas

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Modulo: Drive-by Sensing at City-scale on the Cheap

Dhruv Agarwal, Srinivasan Iyengar, Swami Manohar, Eash Sharma, Ashish Raj, Aadithya Hatwar

COMPASS 2020 | June 2020

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Twitter and political culture: Short text embeddings as a window into political fragmentation

Amar Budhiraja, Joyojeet Pal

COMPASS | June 2020

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Using Mobile Airtime Credits to Incentivize Learning, Sharing and Survey Response: Experiences from the Field

Devansh Mehta, Ramaravind K. Mothilal, Alok Sharma, Bill Thies, Amit Sharma

ACM COMPASS: Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies | June 2020

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Social Media and Society

Social science research into the impacts of digital technologies on society, politics, and culture in India

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Learnings from Technological Interventions in a Low Resource Language: A Case-Study on Gondi

Devansh Mehta, Sebastin Santy, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Alok Sharma, Anurag Shukla, Vishnu Prasad, Venkanna U, Amit Sharma, Kalika Bali

Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) | May 2020