Digital Media

ANDREA PRAT The media is different from other industries. Besides providing consumers with services they value as individuals, like entertainment and information, it also supplies a public good that benefits us as a society. In a modern democracy, the media keeps a nation informed about its government. The media helps ...

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          डॉ0 राजेश कुमार अध्यक्ष, स्कूलऑफ मीडिया एंड कम्युनिकेशन स्टडीज एवं अध्यक्ष, पब्लिकरिलेसन्स कौंसिल ऑफ इंडिया, देहरादून चैप्टर हाल के वर्षों में भारत देश में किशोरों द्वारा इन्टरनेट आधारित सेवाओं के प्रयोग एवं उनपर उपलब्ध सामग्री के उपभोग में अतिशय वृद्धि हुई है. इन्टरनेट एंड मोबाइल ...

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नाज़िया नाज़ आज डाटा से महत्तवपूर्ण कुछ भी नहीं है  इसके बावजूद हम अपने डाटा को जाने–अनजाने में सोशल प्लेटफार्म पर शेयर करने में बिल्कुल भी नहीं हिचकिचाते.फेसबुक पर हमें प्रत्येक मुद्दे  पर पेज और  ग्रुप देखने को मिलते हैं. बस एक ‘लाइक’ का बटन दबाते ही फेसबुक हमारे  डाटा ...

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  Alexis C. Madrigal       Even if you avoid the conspiracy theories, tweeting through a global emergency is messy, context-free, and disorienting A few minutes before 11 p.m. on January 20, Eric Feigl-Ding was pretty much just another guy on the internet. Sure, he is a Harvard-affiliated public-health ...

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Apple and Google operating systems power 99% of smartphones. They  plan to allow only public health authorities to use the technology The Apple-Google decision to not allow GPS data collection with their contact tracing system will require public health authorities that want to access GPS location to rely on what ...

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Recommendations that can support governments The world has been fighting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) since late 2019, and with it, the rapid growth of COVID-19-related misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech. In response to this “infodemic,” governments around the world have swiftly implemented measures that disproportionately limit freedom of expression and ...

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How Data-Mining Companies Are Set to Gain from COVID-19 Ivan Manokha As has always been the case with modern surveillance – and with technology more generally, which, as Melvin Kranzberg famously observed, “is neither good or bad, nor is it neutral” – it may produce positive and socially beneficial outcomes, ...

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Petra Molnar Big Tech presents a variety of ‘solutions’ for fighting the coronavirus sweeping the globe, including surveillance tools and increased monitoring. Coupled with extraordinary states powers in times of exception, the incursion of private-sector solutions leaves open the possibility of grave human rights abuses and far-reaching incursions on civil ...

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Carrie Decell  Governments around the world are trying out new digital surveillance tools in efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19. To panicked populations everywhere, the use of these and any other available tools to address the global crisis has obvious appeal. But the proliferation of these tools raises lots ...

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After the Cold War, the wave of freedom swept the globe. Larger number of countries moved towards more liberal and democratic system of governance and resulting enhancement of press freedom. The process of globalization set in with more vigorously and neo-liberal reforms swept the world. But in the later phase ...

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Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology Across the world, governments and health authorities are working together to find solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, to protect people and get society back up and running. Software developers are contributing by crafting technical tools to help combat the virus and ...

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Image credit: unsplash.com KATYA PODKOVYROFF LEWIS Journalists around the world are working in completely different environments. A journalist in Spain doesn’t face the same security concerns as a journalist working in Iran. But when it comes to digital security, everyone needs to take steps to protect their data, their communications and ...

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