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‘Mobile’ voters may sway polls
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 05, 2014
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Social Media,
Internet Governance
BABALAL Patel’s tiny tea stall in Mumbai is a long way from Silicon Valley. It is not even that close to Bangalore, the Indian equivalent.
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India’s ballot battle will also run through Facebook
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 05, 2014
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Social Media,
Internet Governance
Facebook on Tuesday launched its widely awaited “election tracker” for the upcoming general elections, a move that signals the growing importance of social media as a political tool in a rapidly urbanizing India.
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India ‘tea parties’ enable politicians to woo urban youth with technology
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 27, 2014
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last modified
Mar 06, 2014 12:13 PM
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Social Media,
Internet Governance
Babalal Patel’s tiny tea stall in southern Mumbai is a long way from Silicon Valley. It is not even that close to Bangalore, the Indian equivalent.
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Will You be Paid to Post a Picture?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 18, 2014
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last modified
Mar 06, 2014 11:58 AM
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Social Media,
Internet Governance
The wave of free information production on the web is on the wane.
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The Dangers Of Birdsong
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Feb 04, 2014
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Feb 12, 2014 10:29 AM
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Social Media,
Internet Governance
Instant gratification? Social media can quickly turn the game into checkmate if you don’t keep your emotions in check.
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Wikipedia Editing as Assessment Tool in the Indian Higher Education Classroom
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by
Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Ashwin Kumar A.P. and T. Vishnu Vardhan
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published
Jan 30, 2014
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Jan 30, 2014 10:06 AM
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Social Media,
Higher Education,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness
Getting students to create and edit Wikipedia entries in English and Indian languages can be a comprehensive assessment tool at the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. Both levels of higher education require the demonstration of the ability to present knowledge in encyclopaedic form, which can be done by a good review of relevant literature and the showcasing of key arguments in the field.
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The net is taking over
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Jan 24, 2014
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Feb 04, 2014 05:57 AM
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Internet Governance
For many days to come, people will speculate what caused Sunanda Pushkar's death last week in a New Delhi hotel. Did Union minister Shashi Tharoor's wife die of poisoning or a drug overdose? Wasn't she unwell? Was it suicide? Or was it murder? No less a matter of speculation has been the social media's role in the whole affair.
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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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Internet Governance
Suketu Mehta (@suketumehta) - terrible news about sunanda tharoor. this is murder by twitter.
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Digital Citizens: Why Cyber Security and Online Privacy are Vital to the Success of Democracy and Freedom of Expression
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 07, 2014
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Jan 08, 2014 04:59 AM
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Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Cyber Security,
Event
Michael Oghia will give a presentation which will show why cyber security and online privacy are vital for democracy and freedom of expression.
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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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