Hey Change Group, I thought that this talk on April 11th might be of interest: I hope that you can all join us for a lunch and talk with Dr. Claire Crawford, titled Shutdown, shadowbanned, doxed: navigating governance and governmentality in digital India! The first half an hour will be an informal lunch with Claire, followed by her talk at noon. The talk is co-hosted by TASCHA, GWSS, the South Asia Center, the eScience Institute, and the Data Minor. Please see below for more information, including a request to RSVP for food by April 9th. Thanks! Seminar: Shutdown, shadowbanned, doxxed: navigating governance and governmentality in digital India Thursday, April 11th, 11.30am – 1pm (PT), iSchool, Allen 187 Grand Conference Room: The iSchool is located in Allen Library South, directly above the Research Commons. From the ground floor, go up one flight of stairs and follow enter the iSchool suite through the doors to the right. Someone will be there to direct you to the Conference Room. Lunch will be provided. Seminar Please join us for a seminar with Dr Claire Crawford<https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/people/academicstaff/claire-crawford/> who will be discussing her forthcoming paper Shutdown, shadowbanned, doxxed: navigating governance and governmentality in digital India. Paper Abstract There is a growing body of work considering the relationship between the digital and governance; policy scholarship on regulation, IR scholarship on cyberconflict and security, and interdisciplinary critical scholarship on data and surveillance. However, this literature largely takes for granted the relationship between the intentions of the governing and the experiences of the governed. The state and corporate actors design and implement architectures of digital control, but it is non-state actors that identify, endure and resist these systems. In this paper I present emerging digital practices as tools of governance that reveal a co-constitutive relationship between the state, corporations and pro-government actors when viewed from the perspective of those who are governed. This governance works through diffused mechanisms that further construct a new digital governmentality. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with feminist activists in northern India between 2019 and 2023, I offer specific empirical detail on practices of internet shutdowns, shadowbanning and doxxing. Taking social movements as a lens because of their explicit politics of resistance, I demonstrate that it is important to develop an understanding of governance ‘from below’. Claire Crawford is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Politics at the University of York (UK) and a Visiting Fellow at the King’s College London Global South Research Group. Her research is about how the digital shapes social movement politics in India. She completed her PhD titled “Social movement politics: postcolonialism, feminism and the digital in India” in 2023. She is a member of the York Anti-Colonial Reading Group, the Politics of Style Collective, and the Algorithmic Governance Research Network. She volunteers with Project EduAccess and Age UK. This event is open to all including faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Please register by April 9th and indicate restrictions here: https://forms.gle/KaUy2MQ2dnnYz7Aj6 --- Jason C. Young Senior Research Scientist Technology & Social Change Group University of Washington Pronouns: he, him youngjc2@uw.edu<mailto:youngjc2@uw.edu> The University of Washington resides on the homelands and waters of the Coast Salish Peoples, whose ancestors resided here since time immemorial. Many Indigenous peoples thrive in this place—alive and strong.