Harini Calamur's Writings
Media, Media Bias, Propaganda, Media Studies, Media Ownership
This appeared on August 22nd 2019 There is a case before the Supreme Court that looks at the issue of Fake news, and the proposed solution. Representing the Government, Attorney General KK Venugopal is arguing the need to link social media accounts…
This appeared in CNBC-TV18 on the 1st of August Last week the United States President, Donald Trump, had other meltdown on twitter. This time it was directed against the French. The French Parliament had approved a Digital Services Tax of 3% on…
The Indian news media has been expanding in all directions. Print, TV news, and digital have been giving us content of all shapes and hues, in order to attract our eyeballs, and engage us for fractions of a minute. Most of this…
I write about the face off between Twitter and the Indian Parliament for CNBC – TV18 At the core of the stand-off between the Indian Parliament’s standing committee on Information technology and Twitter is the perception by the Indian right wing that…
I wrote this on Digital Publishing for CNBC-TV18 About five years ago, if you had asked anyone in the media to look into the crystal ball and predict the future of news, the answer would have been simple. Digital media companies such…
A few weeks ago, Mukesh Ambani, the richest Indian, and the Chairman of Reliance Industries, spoke about something that has been, hitherto, the province of academics, and the left. He called for an end to data colonisation by large foreign MNC’s who…
This article appeared first in CNBCTV18 here Fake news has been one of the most contentious topics surrounding news in the last 5 years. It is believed that fake news decided the fate of the Americans and led to the election of…
source : here I wrote this for CNBC TV18 – here On paper India is a democratic republic, based on the rule of law; where individual freedoms are guaranteed by the State. However, in practise, we are held hostage by disparate groups…
Late last year an anonymous reddit user, @deepfakes, did something that got him banned from the platform that prides itself on free speech. He (or she) released a set of porn videos with the faces of celebrities superimposed on the face of…
This appeared on the CNBC Tv18 website One of the more familiar tropes in Hollywood is that of the intelligent machine, that sees human kind as a threat to its survival and annihilates people. In the film 2001 Space Odyssey, the AI…