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- Facial recognition at airports promises convenience in exchange for surveillance
- If smart technology is promising you a few hours of convenience, what is it asking you to sign away? by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 02, 2019 07:07 AM
- Kashmir’s digital blackout marks a period darker than the dark side of the moon
- While we mourn the loss of connection with the moon, remembering a digital blackout closer home. by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 26, 2019 04:26 PM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Digital Native: How free is the internet?
- It is contradictory and confusing as it amplifies as well as destabilises the order of things. by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 04, 2019 01:47 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Why I’m not going to tell you about the dangers of apps like FaceApp
- Concerns about privacy, aimed solely at users, are better directed at owners of digital infrastructure. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 31, 2019 02:37 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- The worrying survival of moon landing conspiracy theorists
- The moon landing deniers were the original fake news propagandists. Only, they didn’t have the internet. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 31, 2019 02:33 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Facebook sees its salvation with its cryptocurrency Libra
- Facebook’s Libra is designed to take control of our digital lives. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 02, 2019 03:58 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Staying silent about cyberbullying is no longer an option
- Cyberbullying is the dangerous new normal. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 02, 2019 03:52 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Digital Native: Three things we need to realise about what TikTok is doing to us
- Fifteen seconds is all that will take for TikTok to own you. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 09, 2019 05:27 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Digital Native: Narendra Modi’s interview by Akshay Kumar is a PR masterpiece
- How to spot the influencer in your politics. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 09, 2019 03:20 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Digital Native: Getting through an election made for the social media gaze
- In the poll season, social media platforms thrive on wounded outrage disguised as politics. by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 28, 2019 04:12 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Activism, Digital India, Digital Natives
- Digital Native: Lessons from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp going down
- The day when three social-media apps refused to load. by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 03, 2019 01:19 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Digital Native: How an information overload affects what you forward
- The information overload of social media sharing can make us act against our better judgement. by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 03, 2019 01:12 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- What I learned from going offline for 48 hours
- A weekend without the internet shows just how much control we surrender to online chatter. by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 14, 2019 04:21 PM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- India’s proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese laws
- The proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese restrictions. The new intermediaries liability and content monitoring act that will ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Feb 04, 2019 02:05 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Digital Native: System Needs a Reboot
- It’s time to replace the schizophrenic need for variety with ingenuity — the truthiness of the information. by Nishant Shah — last modified Dec 31, 2018 02:06 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Digital Native: One Selfie Does a Tragedy Make
- The great find of this century – life’s worth just a selfie. Channeling the inner narcissus is now human hamartia. by Nishant Shah — last modified Dec 05, 2018 02:20 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- Digital Native: Hashtag Fatigue
- It is easy to hijack hashtags by coupling them with others. It is equally easy to make hashtags die. by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 01, 2018 06:04 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Digital Native: Time to Walk the Talk
- #MeToo has turned victims into survivors, but social media remains an unsafe space. by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 01, 2018 05:58 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Digital Native: Hardly Friends Like That
- Individual effort is far from enough to fool Facebook’s grouping algorithm. by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:28 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- The Right Words for Love
- Queer love is legal. Which means that all of us are finally free to find a language that can match our desires. by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:23 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- Digital Native: #MemeToo
- An old meme shows the need for emotional literacy in our digitally saturated age. Memes, like regrettable exes, have the habit of resurfacing at regular ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:20 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- Digital Native: Playing God
- Google’s home assistant can make you feel deceptively God-like as it listens to every command of yours. It is a device that never sleeps, and always listens, ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 04, 2018 04:43 PM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- Digital Native: Double Speak
- Aadhaar’s danger has always been that it opens up individuals to high levels of vulnerability without providing safeguards. by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 04, 2018 03:22 PM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- Digital Native: Hashtag Along With Me
- A hashtag that evolved with a movement. by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:25 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Digital Natives
- Digital Native: How smart cities can make criminals out of denizens
- People download information and share it without knowing about the intellectual property rights. On social media bullying, harassment and hate speech find easy ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:19 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Digital Natives
- Digital Native: The bigger picture
- For all our sleek machines, we are slaves to the much larger Internet of Things. by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:11 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Digital Natives
- Digital Native: Cause an Effect
- Aadhaar is a self-contained safe system, its interaction with other data and information systems is also equally safe and benign. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 26, 2018 03:21 PM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Aadhaar, Digital Natives
- Digital Native: Web of Wander
- The idea of travel as a way of expanding our horizon has now been made redundant. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 01, 2018 12:04 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- Digital Native: The e-wasteland of our times
- How digitising isn’t necessarily a fast-track to a sustainable future. by Nishant Shah — last modified May 06, 2018 03:21 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Digital Native: Delete Facebook?
- You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. by Nishant Shah — last modified May 06, 2018 03:08 AM — Filed under: Social Media, Privacy, Internet Governance, Facebook, Researchers at Work
