Is There Any Hope For The Internet?
In 2001, social theorist Bell Hooks warned about the dangers of a loveless zeitgeist. In “All About Love: New Visions,”...
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Social Media Restrictions For Teenagers: India Could Follow Australia
Late last year, a 10-year-old Delhi boy stunned India’s legal fraternity when he moved court to seek action against people...
Finding A Faster, Cheaper Way To Curb Misinfo
The spread of misinformation and disinformation is the most severe short-term risk facing the world, according to the World Economic...
How News Gatherers Can Respond To Social Media Challenge
Print and electronic media are coping admirably with the upheavals being wrought by social media. When 29-year-old YouTuber Dhruv Rathee...
How Advertising And Not Social Media, Killed Traditional Journalism
The debate over the future relationship between news and social media is bringing us closer to a long-overdue reckoning. Social...
Are Social Media Apps ‘Dangerous Products’?
“You have blood on your hands.” “I’m sorry for everything you have all been through.” These quotes, the first from...
How Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn From Each Other
People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict and...
Using Social Media Images To Better Respond To Disasters
A team of researchers trained an artificial intelligence tool using a million photos of disasters to recognise disasters and incidents...
Threads, Twitter And Meta Domination
Twitter’s move on July 1, 2023, to limit the number of tweets users can see in a day was the...
Social Media Can Impact Women’s Body Image, But It Isn’t All Bad
The “Cost of Beauty”, a short video recently released by global beauty brand Dove, highlights the damaging effects of social media...
Young People Are Abandoning News Websites
The crisis in journalism caused by the traditional news media's struggles to cope with the digital revolution has been well...
Social Media Platforms Pose New Challenges To Child Safety: NCPCR
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) is of the view that social media platforms are posing new...
Mass Shootings: Warning Signs Get Lost In Sea Of Social Media Posts
The warning signs were there for anyone to stumble upon, days before the 18-year-old gunman entered a Texas elementary school...
The Dark Side Of Social Media Influencing
Do you follow influencers on social media? Do you always check their posts? Do you find you’re spending too much...
The Rocky Road To Social Media Independence
The prospect of freeing India from the grip of big social media platforms is alluring, but an embrace of local...
What Happened To WA, Insta, FB Last Night?
Services of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are coming back online after several hours of disruption that impacted millions of people...
Misinformation On Social Media Platforms ‘Killing People’: Biden
U.S. President Joe Biden has said that social media companies are “killing people” by failing to police misinformation on their...
What Google’s Sundar Pichai Said On India’s New Digital Rules
Google is committed to complying with local laws and engages constructively with governments as they scrutinise and adopt regulatory frameworks...
Panel Wants Encryption Broken In Child Porn Fight
Indian enforcement agencies should be able to break end-to-end encryption to hunt down distributors of child pornography online, a parliamentary...
Old Images From Andhra Pradesh And Bangladesh Shared As 2019 Assam Floods
A photograph of a teenager saving a deer in floodwaters is being circulated on social media. One Susanta Nanda tweeted...
