Judicial inquiry must look into whether companies allied with Cambridge Analytica accessed personal data of Indian Facebook users and influenced elections.
The FB and Cambridge Analytica scandal raises discomfiting questions about our relationship with technology and the implications for democracy and politics.
Well, it finally happened....
India's projects related to BIMSTEC, Look-East-Act-East and Indian Ocean Rim Association could suffer a setback, impacting trade with South Asia and the South-South Cooperation agenda.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
There is a dialectical problem when social is sues are discussed without reference to the intersectionality of the prevailing norms and rituals of social issue being discussed.The spoken word , individual, group and tribal communication are daily being massacred and the market ethos of buying and paying for communication.THis state of affairs produces a suicidal road block where nearly 90percent of the population partake of the “fast food “ market proliferation of news.
The technology around us makes it hard to hear. But the human voice is different from other sounds. It can be heard over noises that bury everything else. Even when it’s not shouting. Even when it’s just a whisper. Even the lowest whisper can be heard – -over armies… when it’s telling the truth.
Narendra Modi taking the centre stage of Indian politics has brought the use of social media to the forefront of our electoral politics.He is in a way the pioneer in Indian politics in use of social media to use it to influence and mold public opinion to win elections.
Gandhiji had a cause, azaadi, that resonated with almost all his countrywomen. Meaning no disrespect, if he did not exist, some other great man would have come forward. Today, the removal of mass poverty, creating a harmonious society, could be the big issues that a leader takes up. Instead, creating a world of make believe on social media, getting a little dazzled by the medium, with the message increasingly banal, will hold up the illusion for just a while.
There is a dialectical problem when social is sues are discussed without reference to the intersectionality of the prevailing norms and rituals of social issue being discussed.The spoken word , individual, group and tribal communication are daily being massacred and the market ethos of buying and paying for communication.THis state of affairs produces a suicidal road block where nearly 90percent of the population partake of the “fast food “ market proliferation of news.
The technology around us makes it hard to hear. But the human voice is different from other sounds. It can be heard over noises that bury everything else. Even when it’s not shouting. Even when it’s just a whisper. Even the lowest whisper can be heard – -over armies… when it’s telling the truth.
Narendra Modi taking the centre stage of Indian politics has brought the use of social media to the forefront of our electoral politics.He is in a way the pioneer in Indian politics in use of social media to use it to influence and mold public opinion to win elections.
Gandhiji had a cause, azaadi, that resonated with almost all his countrywomen. Meaning no disrespect, if he did not exist, some other great man would have come forward. Today, the removal of mass poverty, creating a harmonious society, could be the big issues that a leader takes up. Instead, creating a world of make believe on social media, getting a little dazzled by the medium, with the message increasingly banal, will hold up the illusion for just a while.