Harini Calamur's Writings
Media, Media Bias, Propaganda, Media Studies, Media Ownership
Net Neutrality, Dating, Indian GDP, Reptiles that Fly – today’s recommended reads. Net Neutrality is on the agenda today. The BBC has a detailed report on how, if it is accepted by the Government, India’s net neutrality rules will be the…
#WomenBoycottTwitter was on the 13th of October. Many women i know, and a fair few men, stayed off twitter, to protest against (non transparent rules) that suspend those who protest against violence, and spare those who do, or threaten to do violence….
#WomenBoycottTwitter – what makes otherwise easy going women to call for a boycott? That some twitter users can be toxic, is a given. That as a woman you face abuse for being a woman, in addition to being a woman and having…
In the aftermath of the Elphinstone Bridge stampede, and deaths, it is good to examine the relationship between Social Media, Main Stream Media, and Politicians Twitter, more than any other social networking platform, has changed the way Government interact and politicians interact…
source : here I write for the ABP Of late, the flurry of whatsapp forwards have increased, many on current news issues. Most are so well crafted it is difficult to know they are true of not. Things get worse when main…
My mother would tell me, as a kid, the women and girls would get the second or third filter coffee decoction . The men and the boys would get the first decoction. Similarly with curds – the men would get the thick curds, the…
Actually, the rate at which Artificial Intelligence is developing, not very long. Can we do other things, yes … but there has to be very clear cut policy initiatives to create those jobs, and skill for them. My piece for the DNA,…
I wrote on Internet Trolls, Troll Hunting and Censorship, for the ABP Sometime last year, the Pew Research centre, conducted an extensive research on the nature of the internet, and asked “In the next decade, will public discourse online become more or less…
The World Press Freedom Index is out, and it shows that India has fallen from 133 last year to 136 this year. Which means, that according to the report, press freedom has gotten worse. The reasons : With Hindu nationalists trying to purge…
Main Stream Media, has to carry a lot of the responsibility for Fake News. As the media cries wolf, more often than not, it needs to revisit the fable to know what happened in the end. I write for ABP Once upon…