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Rural Indians don’t trust messages on WhatsApp blindly: Survey
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by
Admin
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published
Oct 28, 2018
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Only 8% of the respondents marked 10 as their trust score on a scale of 1-10, where 1 stands for complete distrust and 10 for complete trust, in information received on WhatsApp, found a survey.
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Seminar on “Evolution of communication: Social Media & Beyond”
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by
Admin
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published
Mar 07, 2019
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last modified
Mar 07, 2019 02:52 PM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Sunil Abraham will be a speaker at this event organized by TRAI on March 15 at Hotel Radisson Blu GRT, Near Airport, Chennai. Sunil will be speaking on How should Internet Giants- Social Media, Search engines and ad tech be Regulated.
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Services like TwitterSeva aren’t the silver bullets they are made out to be
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Oct 06, 2016
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last modified
Oct 06, 2016 04:31 PM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
TwitterSeva is great, but it should not be considered a sufficient replacement for proper e-governance systems. This is because there are several serious shortcomings with the TwitterSeva approach, and it is no wonder that enthusiastic police officers and bureaucrats are somewhat upset with the slow deployment of e-governance applications. They are also right in being frustrated with the lack of usability and scalability of existing applications that hold out the promise of adopting private sector platforms to serve citizens better.
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Blog
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So Much to Lose
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 02, 2012
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last modified
Dec 07, 2012 04:39 PM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have been a witness to the maelstrom of events that accompanied the death of the political leader Bal Thackeray.
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Blog
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Social media may influence 160 LS seats in 2014
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 15, 2013
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Social media is likely to influence politics and elections in 160 of India’s 543 Parliament constituencies, making Facebook and Twitter users the nation’s newest voting bloc, a new study suggests.
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Social Media Monitoring
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Jan 13, 2017
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last modified
Jan 16, 2017 02:23 PM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance,
Surveillance
We see a trend of social media and communication monitoring and surveillance initiatives in India which have the potential to create a chilling effect on free speech online and raises question about the privacy of individuals. In this paper, Amber Sinha looks at social media monitoring as a tool for surveillance, the current state of social media surveillance in India, and evaluate how the existing regulatory framework in India may deal with such practices in future.
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Blog
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Social media promotions can backfire, too
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 14, 2013
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Social media is a highly effective marketing tool for companies but its very ubiquity and the speed with which messaging goes viral has meant that it can hurt them badly as well, especially since platforms are not always moderated and can be hacked or misused.
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Social media undermining journalistic credibility?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 06, 2013
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
The line separating journalists and bloggers is being increasingly blurred due to the growth of social media, said Nelson Moses, who was a panelist at a discussion on the credibility of social media as a journalistic tool.
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Social Notworking - 'Murder by Twitter'
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 19, 2014
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last modified
Feb 04, 2014 07:02 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Suketu Mehta (@suketumehta) - terrible news about sunanda tharoor. this is murder by twitter.
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Start-up India turns the heat on Facebook Free Basics
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 29, 2015
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filed under:
Free Basics,
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Facebook launched its "Save Free Basics" campaign last week, asking users to support "digital equality" in India.
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