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Now trending: Regional Indian language social media networks
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 15, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Access to Knowledge
How many languages did you speak today? Chances are there was a lot of English at work and at home, but at least a sprinkling of Hindi (or Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil or Kannada) when you were chatting, gossiping or joking with friends and family.
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News & Media
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Now, Twitter too caught up in Cambridge Analytica controversy
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by
Admin
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published
May 02, 2018
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Twitter does not share a break-up of users by region, the platform has less than 100 million users in India.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Online Censorship: How Government should Approach Regulation of Speech
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Dec 05, 2012
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filed under:
Social Media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Why is there a constant brouhaha in India about online censorship? What must be done to address this?
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Outrage before sharing
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 20, 2015
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Has the social media converted people into a lynch mob that seeks out justice and passes judgement instantly, without bothering to hear both sides of the story?
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News & Media
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Pastebin, Dailymotion, Github blocked after DoT order: Report
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 03, 2015
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last modified
Jan 03, 2015 04:17 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance,
Chilling Effect,
Censorship
A number of Indian users are reporting they're not able to access websites such as Pastebin, DailyMotion and Github while accessing the internet through providers such as BSNL and Vodafone.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Public Art, Technology and Citizenship - Blank Noise Project
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Nov 30, 2013
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last modified
Apr 17, 2015 10:43 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Web Politics,
Digital Natives,
Making Change,
Blank Noise Project,
Researchers at Work
Jasmeen Patheja speaks about the active citizen in the digital age, its challenges in the public and private spheres and interdisciplinary methods to overcome them.
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Digital Natives
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Making Change
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Reading the Fine Script: Service Providers, Terms and Conditions and Consumer Rights
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by
Jyoti Panday
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published
Jul 02, 2014
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last modified
Jul 04, 2014 06:31 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Consumer Rights,
Google,
internet and society,
Privacy,
Transparency and Accountability,
Intermediary Liability,
Accountability,
Facebook,
Data Protection,
Policies,
Safety
This year, an increasing number of incidents, related to consumer rights and service providers, have come to light. This blog illustrates the facts of the cases, and discusses the main issues at stake, namely, the role and responsibilities of providers of platforms for user-created content with regard to consumer rights.
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Blog
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Regulating Social Media: Unrealistic, Impossible, Necessary?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 15, 2013
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last modified
Apr 30, 2013 04:50 PM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Video,
Censorship,
Social Networking
The Press Council of India Chairperson Justice Markandey Katju calls for regulating social media, saying it will prevent offensive material coming into the public domain. But is it really necessary to regulate the social media? If yes, is it possible to do it?
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News & Media
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Reply to RTI Application on Blocking of website and Rule 419A of Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 21, 2013
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Social Media,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The Department of Telecommunications sent its reply to an RTI application from the Centre for Internet and Society. The application was sent on December 27, 2012 with reference to blocking of websites and Rule 419A of the Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951.
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Resources
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Rise of the bot: all you need to know about the latest threat online
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 05, 2014
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last modified
Jan 31, 2014 07:16 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Wikipedia,
Internet Governance,
Access to Knowledge
In the last week of December, 2013, former union railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal lodged a police complaint in Chandigarh after witnessing “an unusual rise in his online fan following”. The former minister told the police that his Facebook page had received more than 10,000 likes, within a span of 24 hours. While his allegation that the ‘likes’ were “fabricated” may be true, information technology experts believe a bot was at work.
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