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Digital Native: Do not go Gently into the Good Night: by Nishant Shah — published Mar 03, 2017 — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
If there’s a lesson to be learned from the resistance to the Trump administration, it is this — patriotism is not a feeling, it is an action.
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Digital Native: Double Speak: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 04, 2018 — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
Aadhaar’s danger has always been that it opens up individuals to high levels of vulnerability without providing safeguards.
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Digital native: Ever on the go: by Nishant Shah — published Jul 30, 2017 — last modified Aug 07, 2017 03:54 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
It is time to insist that the infrastructure of digital India is accompanied by the infrastructure of care for the digital Indian.When the telephone was first introduced as a mass communication tool, one of the biggest fears was that it would allow people to lie and cheat at will.
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Digital Native: Finger on the buzzer: by Nishant Shah — published Oct 22, 2017 — last modified Jan 10, 2018 12:38 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
Which Hogwarts House are you? No, you don’t really want to know.
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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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