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Digital native: Free speech? You must be joking!: by Nishant Shah — published May 14, 2017 — last modified Jun 08, 2017 01:16 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Researchers at Work, Digital India
India’s digital landscape is dotted with vigilante voices that drown out people’s right to free speech.
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Digital Native: Getting through an election made for the social media gaze: by Nishant Shah — published Apr 28, 2019 — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Activism, Digital India, Digital Natives
In the poll season, social media platforms thrive on wounded outrage disguised as politics.
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Digital Native: Hardly Friends Like That: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 30, 2018 — last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:28 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
Individual effort is far from enough to fool Facebook’s grouping algorithm.
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Digital Native: Hashtag Along With Me: by Nishant Shah — published Jul 29, 2018 — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:25 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Digital Natives
A hashtag that evolved with a movement.
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Digital Native: Hashtag Fatigue: by Nishant Shah — published Nov 01, 2018 — filed under: Researchers at Work
It is easy to hijack hashtags by coupling them with others. It is equally easy to make hashtags die.
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Digital Native: How an information overload affects what you forward: by Nishant Shah — published Mar 10, 2019 — last modified Apr 03, 2019 01:12 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
The information overload of social media sharing can make us act against our better judgement.
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Digital Native: How free is the internet?: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 18, 2019 — last modified Sep 04, 2019 01:47 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
It is contradictory and confusing as it amplifies as well as destabilises the order of things.
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Digital Native: How smart cities can make criminals out of denizens: by Nishant Shah — published Jul 15, 2018 — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:19 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Digital Natives
People download information and share it without knowing about the intellectual property rights. On social media bullying, harassment and hate speech find easy avenues.
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Digital Native: In digiville attention is Currency: by Nishant Shah — published Jun 11, 2017 — last modified Jul 05, 2017 04:40 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
The increased importance on attention and the lack of it on social media gives all the more reason why we need to be discerning about what we invest our attention upon.
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Digital Native: Lessons from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp going down: by Nishant Shah — published Mar 24, 2019 — last modified Apr 03, 2019 01:19 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
The day when three social-media apps refused to load.
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