Tag: social media
Video | Democratic Lawmaker Stumps Mark Zuckerberg with Questions on Cambridge Analytics
Democratic Lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Stumps Facebook Co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg with Questions on Cambridge Analytics.
NATGRID Access to Social Media Accounts: Safety or Breach of Privacy?
NATGRID would require a complete surveillance over the social lives of internet users and access to their online data.
Hooked to Social Media: Netizens Hardly Have a Life
VIEWPOINT
Netizens are becoming violent, irrational and humdrum. If one deliberates on the insinuations and predispositions for people in the online world, it can be said that the herd effect on all social media platforms has severely affected the lives of people who are at the receiving end.
Disconnected in the Age of Digital Communication
The incidences of everyday life can teach us to rethink the domains of living that we tend to take for granted. The author talks about the lack of human to human communications despite social media.
Social Media Syndrome: MPCC Makes Facebook and Twitter Accounts Mandatory for Candidates
POLITICS
In Madhya Pradesh it has been made mandatory to have 15,000 Likes and 5,000 Twitter Followers if one aspires for a part ticket in the upcoming assembly elections.
DIALOGUE|Confessions of a Social Media Addict
DIALOGUE | Are Smartphones the New Opium of the Masses?
Obsession and diligent usage are often confused and this has often been the case as far as our relationship with technology is considered. Let us explore the layers of this complex debate through the author’s first-hand experience.
Amir Sayed
Does Contemporary Social Media Resemble the Panoptican in the Foucauldian Scheme?
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Looking beyond Social Media
Looking beyond Social Media
We live in the age of information revolution – a time when information, ideas, news very rapidly spread from one corner...