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    Column: Legalised Lawlessness and the British Empire

    October 29, 2022 by calamur
  • Books / Reviews

    Review – Animal Farm by George Orwell, narrated by Stephen Fry

    January 8, 2022 by calamur
  • Soul by Pixar
    Films / Reviews

    Film Review: Soul by Pixar – a balm for weary souls

    January 2, 2021 by calamur
  • Books / Reviews

    Book Review: Bhima the Lone Warrior

    April 18, 2020 by calamur
  • Star Trek Picard
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    Review: Star Trek Picard

    April 13, 2020 by calamur
  • Predators and Prey by Abhinav Agarwal
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    Book Review : Predators and Prey by Abhinav Agarwal

    January 25, 2020 by calamur
  • Predators and Prey by Abhinav Agarwal
    Books / graphic novels / Reviews

    On Reading – From being a Lapsed reader to Starting to Read Regularly Again

    January 12, 2020 by calamur
  • Natasha Mehra Must Die
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    Book Review : Natasha Mehra Must Die by Anand Sivakumaran

    January 3, 2019 by calamur
  • Books / Reviews

    Book Review : The Internet Trap – How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy

    November 22, 2018 by calamur
  • India Connected - Ravi Aggarwal
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    Book Review : India Connected

    November 9, 2018 by calamur

Category: Digital

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Column: Big Tech Censorship – Who Watches the Watchmen?
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Column: Big Tech Censorship – Who Watches the Watchmen?

December 31, 2021 by calamur

This piece on Big Tech and censorship appeared in the FPJ on the 7th of June 2021 On the 1st of June this year, Nigerian President Mohammadu Buhari made his government’s equivalent of “goli maaro saalon ko” tweet. Sending out a stern…

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Column: The Battle to Bring Big Tech to Heel
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Column: The Battle to Bring Big Tech to Heel

December 31, 2021 by calamur

This appeared in the FPJ on the 1st of March, 2021 The big tech giants have gotten so big that they have begun to pose a challenge to many democratically elected governments, threatening to upend entire societies, and systems in their insatiable…

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Column: Australia vs Big Tech, and how to save News
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Column: Australia vs Big Tech, and how to save News

December 31, 2021 by calamur

This article appeared in the FPJ on 22nd February, 2021 Big Tech has grown to an extent where it can challenge the authority and might of the Nation State. And this power derivers from their monopoly control over our data sets arising…

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Column: Foreign Social Media Companies must Follow the Law of the Land
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Column: Foreign Social Media Companies must Follow the Law of the Land

December 31, 2021 by calamur

This appeared in the FPJ, on the 15th of February As Twitter faces off with the Indian Government, it forms an interesting precedence for the way social media platforms interact in countries, and societies – and brings into question the role of…

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Column: Breaking up Big Tech – The Way Ahead
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Column: Breaking up Big Tech – The Way Ahead

December 27, 2020 by calamur

Fair Tax Mark, the organisation that certifies organisations on their good tax practises, estimates that in the decade between 2010 and 2019, the Silicon Six – Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Netflix – paid $100 billion less than they should have.

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Column: The Chase for Ratings and the coverage of Sex, Scandal, and Fake News
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Column: The Chase for Ratings and the coverage of Sex, Scandal, and Fake News

December 27, 2020 by calamur

Never mind the murder of truth, never mind the spread of hate – the appeasement of the rating gods is paramount

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Column: Making Social Media Platforms Pay for News
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Column: Making Social Media Platforms Pay for News

December 27, 2020 by calamur

In India it is estimated that 52 per cent of the total audience consumes news on Facebook and WhatsApp (also owned by Facebook). In the USA, this figure is 68 per cent. For Free

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Column: Pressing need to look at the funding of journalism, for news that matters
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Column: Pressing need to look at the funding of journalism, for news that matters

December 27, 2020 by calamur

Journalism in Public Interest has to look at different methods of funding, beyond the sale of fleeting eyeballs to advertisers

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Column: American Exceptionalism and the forced sale of Tik Tok
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Column: American Exceptionalism and the forced sale of Tik Tok

December 27, 2020 by calamur

this appeared in the FPJ Tik Tok ; banned in India, and facing a ban in the USA unless it is sold to an American buyer, Tik Tok faces a tough battle ahead. But, what does this mean for Government control on…

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Column: Advertising Pressure on Platforms that run Hate
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Column: Advertising Pressure on Platforms that run Hate

December 27, 2020 by calamur

This appeared in the FPJ Last year, when things were somewhat normal, and people went to see comedy shows, comedian Agrima Joshua, during a live show,  cracked a joke about the Shivaji statue that is to be installed in the middle of…

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Harini Calamur –  works at the intersection of digital content, technology, and audiences. I write mainly on Economics, Development, Politics, Media bias, Science Communication, and review the content that I consume

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