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Nishant Shah
Nishant Shah is a professor of new media and the co-founder of The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore
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Digital native: Freedom: Error 404Subscriber Only
August 13, 2017 00:05 IST
Digital freedom remains a goalpost that we must keep moving towards. However, digital freedom, when posited as an adversary to personal freedom, should always lose. Our governments, policymakers and technosocial leaders owe it to us to create a digital India that puts people’s freedom first.
Sun, Aug 13, 2017
Digital native: Ever on the goSubscriber Only
July 30, 2017 08:59 IST
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.
Sun, Jul 30, 2017
Digital native: Not only wordsSubscriber Only
July 16, 2017 00:05 IST
Emoticons, or if you prefer the original Japanese word emojis, are everywhere. We are used to emoticons in all shapes and sizes — from animated gifs jumping out at us on our social media feed to yellow-faced smileys that we use to add tone and feeling, nuance and layers to our text-heavy conversations in the digital world.
Sun, Jul 16, 2017
Digital native: On mute, the voice of the peopleSubscriber Only
June 24, 2017 00:05 IST
We are at the mercy of trigger-happy governments and profit-hungry corporations that hold our digital lives ransom. They have the capacity to censor, contain, control and eradicate all our digital data without our consent and without repercussions.
Sat, Jun 24, 2017
Digital native: In digiville attention is currencySubscriber Only
June 11, 2017 00:00 IST
The increased importance on attention and the lack of it on social media gives all the more reason why we need to be discerning about what we invest our attention upon.
Sun, Jun 11, 2017
Digital native: Look before you (digitally) leapSubscriber Only
May 28, 2017 00:05 IST
Creating a digital future is great, but there’s a serious need to secure the infrastructure first.
Sun, May 28, 2017
Digital native: Free speech? You must be joking!Subscriber Only
May 14, 2017 10:57 IST
India’s digital landscape is dotted with vigilante voices that drown out people’s right to free speech.
Sun, May 14, 2017
Digital native: Snap out of outrage modeSubscriber Only
April 30, 2017 00:30 IST
Rage at the inequality of the digital world is good. But why stop at the Snapchat CEO?
Sun, Apr 30, 2017
Digital native: Are You Still Having Fun?Subscriber Only
April 16, 2017 00:30 IST
Before you accept a fun app into your digital ecosystem, prepare yourself for the data you will be giving away.
Mon, Apr 17, 2017
Digital native: You can check out, you can never leaveSubscriber Only
April 02, 2017 00:00 IST
Aadhaar is not something you define and opt into, it is something that defines you.
Sun, Apr 02, 2017
Digital native: Lie Me a RiverSubscriber Only
March 19, 2017 04:00 IST
The sea of social media around us often drowns the truth, exchanging misinformation for facts.
Sun, Mar 19, 2017
Digital native: Who will watch the watchman?Subscriber Only
February 19, 2017 04:00 IST
The state mining its citizens as data and suspending rights to privacy under the rhetoric of national security is alarming.
Sun, Feb 19, 2017
Digital native: Do not go Gently into the Good NightSubscriber Only
February 05, 2017 00:00 IST
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
Thu, Feb 09, 2017
Digital native: Back at it AgainSubscriber Only
January 22, 2017 00:15 IST
The Indian digital landscape has put us in a loop of hashtags and outrage, a space where we have mastered the art of shame
Sun, Jan 22, 2017
Digital Native: The Dream of the CyborgSubscriber Only
January 08, 2017 12:15 IST
We have arrived at hybrid realities, where the technological and the human cannot be separated. The digital future we had once imagined is already here.
Sun, Jan 08, 2017
Digital native: People Like UsSubscriber Only
December 18, 2016 12:15 IST
How the algorithm decides what you see on your timeline.
Sun, Dec 18, 2016
Digital native: The View from My BubbleSubscriber Only
December 04, 2016 00:15 IST
In the digital world, the privileged have the power to deny a devastating crisis for the poor.
Sun, Dec 04, 2016
Digital native: The Voices in Our HeadsSubscriber Only
November 20, 2016 00:15 IST
What if our phones were to go silent? Would you be able to deal with the silence?
Sun, Nov 20, 2016
Digital native: Mind Your LanguageSubscriber Only
November 06, 2016 00:09 IST
The lack of localisation on the Internet is a symptom of a larger problem.
Sun, Nov 06, 2016
Digital native: The future is nowSubscriber Only
October 16, 2016 04:00 IST
The digital is not just an addition but the new norm in our lives, and it might not be all good.
Sun, Oct 16, 2016
Love in the Time of TinderSubscriber Only
October 02, 2016 04:00 IST
Service providers and information aggregators mine our information and share it in ways that we cannot imagine.
Sun, Oct 02, 2016
Who Owns Your Phone?Subscriber Only
September 18, 2016 04:00 IST
The capacity of companies to defy standards that work tells an alarming story of what we lose when we lose control of our devices.
Sun, Sep 18, 2016
Quarter Life Crisis: The World Wide Web turns 25 this yearSubscriber Only
September 04, 2016 04:00 IST
With the unexplained ban on websites, the state seems to have stopped caring for the digital rights of its citizens.
Sun, Sep 04, 2016
Do I Want to Say Happy B’day?Subscriber Only
August 07, 2016 00:00 IST
When it comes to greeting friends on their birthdays, social media prompts are a great reminder. So why does an online message leave us cold?
Sun, Aug 07, 2016
Book review: Apocalypse Now ReduxSubscriber Only
August 06, 2016 00:17 IST
An engaging, if somewhat freewheeling, political critique of the times we live in.
Sat, Aug 06, 2016
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