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Reversing The Gaze: Empowering Citizenship Through Digital HumanitiesAuthor: Dhruv Sapra Sapra Date: 2019-07-30 Report no: IIIT/TH/2019/95 Advisor:Aniket Alam AbstractThe thesis is a novel attempt to propose a methodology which could help create and profile any semi-open organisation using publicly available data about its members and how they communicate with each other. The thesis is divided into two parts. In the first part, we lay down 5 methods through which we can create a virtual image of any organisation. The second part gives out a practical application of the proposed methodology where we find insights into an organisation and the movement of its members. We use the data available about an organisation in the public domain, from their websites, newspapers and other open source data. To illustrate our methodology, we use the instance of the Sangh Parivar with its affiliates along with the parent body, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to perform a comprehensive analysis. We performed Social Network Analysis on some of the sub-fronts of the network using the method of co-occurrence to deduce the relationship between different organs of the Sangh Parivar. The results show a significant change in the way many sub-organisations are placed in the network with varying influence. We used another step of our methodology to show a Path Dependency in the Bharatiya Janata Party by studying the trail formed by the elected Members of the Parliament in the last 30 years. Using the connections these elected MPs make with the members from outside the political fraternity along with the Path Dependency and their relationship with the other fronts of the Sangh Parivar, we attempt to give out a complete picture of the members of the people associated with the Sangh Parivar using basic computational tools and publicly available data. Full thesis: pdf Centre for Exact Humanities |
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