When Reels Get Risqué
In today’s attention economy, where videos are consumed in mere seconds and algorithms decide what we see next, social media platforms like Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts have become cultural…
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Trapped in the Echo Chamber of Outrage
In today’s digital age, managing emotional outbursts—especially in the wake of tragedy—has become increasingly difficult and unpredictable. It is a gush in sympathy that immediately turns into a whirlpool of…
The Dark Side of Smartphones: A Deep Dive into Adolescents’ Mental Health Crisis
We still hear the echoes of the Netflix series Adolescence in the media. It has indeed sparked widespread discussions and debates about the dangers of smartphones and social media for…
Today’s Social Media Are No Longer Safe for Journalism
Hannah Arendt, the German-American political theorist who studied totalitarian regimes, noted in 1974 that “The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a…
The Endless Scroll: How Short-Form Content is Reshaping Our Minds and Lives
In the age of digital connectivity, we are witnessing a dramatic shift in how people consume content. Platforms like Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok have introduced an era of…
Social Media as It Should Be
BRUSSELS – Mathematician Cathy O’Neil once said that an algorithm is nothing more than someone’s opinion embedded in code. When we speak of “the algorithms” that power Facebook, X, TikTok,…
What We are Not Talking About in the Kids and Phones Debate?
With increasing anxiety and depression among today’s youth, many conversations revolve around the influence of phones and social media. Yet, as many clinical psychologists specialising in family relationships, are often…
Digitalization dilemma: Connecting Machine, Disconnecting Humans
“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” - Albert Einstein Modern society has been transformed by digital technology.…
Living in the Information Age
Ishani, who lives in Canada, uses video calls to speak with her parents in India almost every day. She can concentrate on her work after feeling less anxious about her parents…
Childish Fantasies: Age Verification for Social Media Down Under
The Australian government has been in a banning mood of late. In keeping with an old, puritanical tradition, the killjoys and wowsers have seized the reins of power and snorting…
Between Secularism and Stigma: The Islamophobic Politics on Social Media
Introduction The emergence of social media platforms has brought about a significant transformation in the political discourse, opening up new channels for the dissemination of ideas and the establishment of…
Social Media and the Post-Truth Society
We are living in a society where every day, we find out that whatever we had been doing, we had been doing it wrong. From narratives about a historical civilization…
Youtubers to the Rescue of Indian Progressives
In the current era of excessive social-media consumption, the so-called content-creator and influencer is king - or queen. Increasingly, we seem to have offloaded our abilities of social, political and…
2024 Elections Around the World and Social Media’s Blind Eye to Election Integrity
The glamour of social media has surpassed the influence of conventional media in our daily lives. It’s a platform where people share moments from having lunch to updating relationship statuses.…
Prejudicial Bans: Congress Tosses over TikTok
How delicious is political hypocrisy. Abundant and rich, it manifests in the corridors of power with regularity. Of late, there is much of it in the US Congress, evident over…
How social media is enabling fascist propaganda
YouTube has latched on to TikTok’s winning formula of feeding users’ brains the cheap sugar that it needs to continue swiping up for newer videos, maximizing their time on screen…
‘Breaking the Mold’: How Facebook Became the NYT of the Digital Age
"If you try to break the mold, you’re not going to last long," famed linguist and cultural critic Noam Chomsky wrote in an essay published in Z Magazine in October…
Forget The Kids: Social Media, Congress and Child Safety
It was a struggle to see how a child’s welfare was relevant in the latest, shrill debates about technology taking place on The Hill. The Senate Judiciary Committee and the…
Manosphere Madness: YouTube’s Antifeminist Pipeline Recruiting Youth Into The Right-Wing
It is hard to scroll through YouTube and not be bombarded with videos and recommendations that push a right-wing agenda. This is something that a lot of people online have…
Making a Difference Together: Social Media Giving Day is Here
Come, July 15th, we have a day called Social Media Giving Day. In today's digital age, it's so obvious to see social media becoming an integral part of our lives,…
Social Media Day: Celebrating the Triumph Over Fake News on These Platforms
Social Media Day, celebrated annually on June 30th, However, it just went unrecognized even among the people who frequently use these platforms. Social media recognizes the power and influence of…
Social media and people’s life: A way of good governance
by MD Tabrez Alam & Sushant Mishra ABSTRACT Social networking has become an indispensible part of our everyday lives. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have changed how we communicate,…
Lessons Learned in the Internet’s Darkest Corners
We all do it. Make little snap judgments about everyday strangers as we go about our lives. Without giving it a second’s thought, we sketch minibiographies of the people we…
Public Opinion in the Digital Era: Neumann’s Spiral of Silence
Civic participation in issues of public importance has been at the heart of many debates in our world history. Philosophers and theorists have attempted to determine how the ordinary citizen…
Will social media unite Kashmir?
Digital technology has demolished the borders between different countries without any war or confrontation. The same technology has come to the rescue of those families living across the Indo-Pak border…
Hate is normal in India today, thanks to social media
The Indian ruling party, BJP, believes in using unscrupulous means to achieve and retain power. This includes instigating riots and achieving polarization by dividing people on religious and social lines.…
Company Puts Profits Before Public Safety Over and Over Again, Claims Facebook Whistleblower
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen claimed that the social media giant for prioritizing profits over public safety. Haugen, who worked on the company’s Civic Integrity team until it was dissolved…
Social Media: Dystopia out of Utopia
A whiff of fresh air caresses my cheekbones as I see the leaves sway periodically from right to left. My eyes search in both the direction of the road to…
Emergence of Editorial Eye as a Civic Value in this Era of Social Media
There has been a remarkable upsurge in the reach of journalism, social media, and public engagement, through digital sources in the recent 20 years. Every minute of every day, our…
Clampdown on social media is contempt of court
The Supreme Court had rightly taken suo moto cognisance on 30th April of unruly attack on social media freedom from pro-ruling party forces. A tweet was calling out the difference…
Impact of Social Media on Our Attention Span and its Drastic Aftermath
The quantity of information that we are exposed to every single day is astounding: we now in 2021 take in five times more information than we did in 1986. With…
Social Media & Women!
Of late, a new importance is being accorded to “social media.” The so-called “social media” is allegedly playing an extremely negative role in spread of “socially-approved” abuses targeting weaker sections,…
The Social Media Dilemma
We used to say, “Seeing is believing.” That is no longer true about videos. Use of AI to create Deep Fakes is so powerful that most people can’t tell the…
Latest Draft Intermediary Rules: Fixing big tech, by breaking our digital rights?
Here we will provide you with information about everything that has happened and is happening with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. We provide…
WhatsUp with WhatsApp?
We are social beings and need company, affirmation, and friendship. Traditionally we sought that in face-to-face interactions, the most remote form of it was the penfriend. Someone we had never…
Data Privacy And Tech Giants
Prerogative of your privacy with the tech giants like WHATSAPP, TWITTER, FACEBOOK,INSTAGRAM,and like many others is being largely brought into questions and judicial overview as to what it actually constitutes…
Social media platforms need to act against toxic and bullying messages
There is toxicity in the air everywhere but more than that the poison in the virtual world can be the reason for huge damage to our social fabric and democratic…
Platform Democracy in India
We are living in the age of digital era when consumption of politics and political activities are become inevitable because we are all carrying a platform in shape of smartphones…
Social Media And The Mental Health Of The Youth
Social media becomes an essential tool for youth today. Undoubtedly it helps people in connecting with the people around the globe and also reduces the distance, but on the other…
We Need Digital Detox
Cell phones are so convenient that they’re an inconvenience. Haruki Murakami Technology, as we know, has transformed our life. It has made things easy for us. It has lessened the…
Echo chambers , Post – Truth Era and the Fear of Missing Out: A millennial’s tale
“I am a millennial. We invented social media. So I should be really good at this” – when Emma from the popular web series starts narrating her tale, it sets…
Relationships in the time of Social Media
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. ‒ Rumi Perhaps the truth is this: at the deepest level, human bonding…
US Government Collecting Social Media Accounts Of Visitors To Country
The US government has begun requesting foreign travelers to submit their social media information to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) before traveling into the country. The practice is claimed to…
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