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The End Of The Art Connoisseur? Experts And Knowledge Production In The Visual Arts In The Digital Age, Payal Arora, Filip Vermeylen
The End Of The Art Connoisseur? Experts And Knowledge Production In The Visual Arts In The Digital Age, Payal Arora, Filip Vermeylen
Payal Arora
In this digital age, declarations surface of the death of the expert and the democratization of information. Crowd wisdom is seen as the new guide in constructing and evaluating knowledge. In the context of the art world, this tension between the amateurs and the experts becomes particularly pronounced as popular meets high culture. Questions arise such as: what is the role of the expert in the evaluation of art in contemporary times? Do social media dismantle age-old hierarchies and established priesthoods in the art world? And can we assume that mass participation in valuation results in better judgments? This article …
Is The Doctor On? In Search For Users Of Rural Medical Diagnostic Software In Central Himalayas, Payal Arora
Is The Doctor On? In Search For Users Of Rural Medical Diagnostic Software In Central Himalayas, Payal Arora
Payal Arora
The Indian healthcare sector provides ripe ground for development as access to high-quality and timely medical diagnosis remains unrequited among its vast rural populace. With an acute shortage of doctors in rural areas, medical diagnostic software has been created as a surrogate, propelling non-physician workers to step in. For diagnostic software to function effectively, it is paramount to identify the user. Using an intended pilot programme of RightChoice software in the central Himalayas, the present article focuses on the political and economic complexities involved in identifying users of such software.
Leisure Divide: Can The Third World Come Out To Play?, Payal Arora
Leisure Divide: Can The Third World Come Out To Play?, Payal Arora
Payal Arora
As billions of dollars are invested in mitigating the digital divide, stakes are raised to gain validity for these cost-intensive endeavors, focusing more on online activities that have clear socio-economic outcomes. Hence, farmers in rural India are watched closely to see how they access crop prices online, while their Orkuting gets sidelined as anecdotal. This paper argues that this is a fundamental problem as it treats users in emerging markets as somehow inherently different from those in the West. After all, it is now commonly accepted that much of what users do online in developed nations is leisure-oriented. This perspective …
The Ict Laboratory: An Analysis Of Computers In Schools In Rural India, Payal Arora
The Ict Laboratory: An Analysis Of Computers In Schools In Rural India, Payal Arora
Payal Arora
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