What’s New at Prayogshala
Zainab spoke on ‘Digital Resilience through Digital Literacy’ at the 8th Youth IGF at BITS Pilani KK Birla, Goa, on September 18th.
Hansika wrote about how personalized disinformation is another dark, creative application of technology. Read more here!
Hansika and Anirudh co-authored a paper titled ‘The Importance of Context Awareness in PISA Creativity Data.’ Read more here!
Hansika was featured in the podcast "Brain for Business” hosted by Laurence Knell. Check it out here!
Hansika was quoted in an article titled ‘Why Gen Z is seeking comfort in bathrooms.’ Read more here!
Hansika was quoted in an article titled ‘FRND wants to connect lonely Indians across small towns. Will it work?’ Read more here!
Hansika was featured in a 2-episode series of the ‘Shift* Happens! An Inspira Series’ by Inspira Counselling. Check it out here!
Hansika co-authored a paper titled ‘Cyber-Creativity: A Decalogue of Research Challenges.’ Read more here!
Hansika wrote a blog reviewing Black Mirror season 7 from a gender and creativity perspective. Read more here!
Hansika was quoted in the article ‘Researchers train AI model to respond to online political posts, find quality of discourse improved.’ Read more on The Economic Times, Deccan Herald, The Week. and Storyboard 18.
Anirudh presented his paper on ‘The impact of life skills education on socio-emotional development and school-related outcomes among adolescents in India’ at the 2025 Southeast Asian Stata Conference.
Hansika was invited to give a talk on ‘Measuring the dark side of creativity’ at International Conference on Cognitive Psychological Assessment and Enhancement.
Anirudh co-authored with others an article on ‘Can Incentives for Sharing True Information Affect Discernment? Results from an Online Experiment in India.’ Read more here.
T. Roy writes about ‘How Culture Shapes Parental Support or Rejection of Queer Youth.’ Read more here!
Democracy and documentation have long gone hand in hand—but with Aadhaar, this relationship has been digitally reframed. Once pitched as voluntary, Aadhaar now governs access to welfare, services, and citizenship itself. This blog explores how digital infrastructures like Aadhaar reconfigure civic inclusion, making visibility a moral imperative. Framed as tools of transparency and efficiency, such systems reshape participation, public trust, and the very meaning of being a good citizen today.
Exploring how in a digital landscape where misinformation is copy pasted across online bubbles and the various forms of authentication which are employed. Looking at how the growth in AI technology could create disinformation.
The Eleventh Annual Seminar on Research in Social Sciences on 22nd November, 2025 (Sat, 9AM to 2PM)
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Monk Prayogshala presents a digital certificate course on Research Methodology and Statistical Reasoning
Monk Prayogshala presents a digital certificate course on Behavioral Economics.
Zainab spoke on ‘Digital well-being: What’s not working, & how we can do better’ at the Indian School of Internet Governance (inSIG 10th Edition) at BITS Pilani, Goa.