Abstract
Este artículo es un estudio cuantitativo a nivel micro de las percepciones de los estudiantes de ciencias sociales en la India sobre si el Wi-Fi gratuito les ha ayudado a aprender mejor. Se cree comúnmente que los recursos digitales son neutrales sobre las desigualdades sociales. Sin embargo, la encuesta revela que el capital sociocultural en forma de casta, género, idioma y ubicación tiene un impacto negativo en el acceso digital, incluso si es gratuito. El documento también infunde esperanza, ya que encuentra que casi todos los estudiantes en el campus de una Universidad Estatal en Western Maharashtra tienen acceso a Internet y la mayoría de estos estudiantes perciben que el acceso digital ha mejorado su rendimiento académico.
Highlights
Every third Indian has access to the internet through her phone
What are the Indian historians doing about it? The answer probably can be found if we approach the elephant of Digital Humanities in our room
Digital Humanities (DH) is a field that tries to understand the interactions between the Science of human behaviour and the Technology of digital nature
Summary
Every third Indian has access to the internet through her phone. The number of mobile internet users in India today is much higher than what was the total population of India in its first census of 19511. DH is interdisciplinary; by necessity it breaks down boundaries between disciplines It is an academic field self-reflexively looking at the application of digital technology to humanities fields of enquiry. The National Convention on Digital Initiatives for Higher Education was a convention attended by more than 700 Vice-Chancellors of Indian Universities. At this convention held on 9th July 2017, a platform for digital learning was launched by the President of India while the Cabinet Minister and the Minister of State for Human Resource Development were the guests of honour. It further advised the universities to take up a larger national effort involving both private and public players and asked them to make Wi-Fi connectivity available in all higher education institutions by 15th August 20184
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