Author
Nishant Shah
199 items.
20 Oct 2019
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Facial recognition at airports promises convenience in exchange for surveillanceIf smart technology is promising you a few hours of convenience, what is it asking you to sign away?
26 Sep 2019
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Kashmir’s digital blackout marks a period darker than the dark side of the moonWhile we mourn the loss of connection with the moon, remembering a digital blackout closer home.
18 Aug 2019
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Digital Native: How free is the internet?It is contradictory and confusing as it amplifies as well as destabilises the order of things.
31 Jul 2019
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Why I’m not going to tell you about the dangers of apps like FaceAppConcerns about privacy, aimed solely at users, are better directed at owners of digital infrastructure.
31 Jul 2019
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The worrying survival of moon landing conspiracy theoristsThe moon landing deniers were the original fake news propagandists. Only, they didn’t have the internet.
30 Jun 2019
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Facebook sees its salvation with its cryptocurrency LibraFacebook’s Libra is designed to take control of our digital lives.
16 Jun 2019
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Staying silent about cyberbullying is no longer an optionCyberbullying is the dangerous new normal.
19 May 2019
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Digital Native: Three things we need to realise about what TikTok is doing to usFifteen seconds is all that will take for TikTok to own you.
5 May 2019
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Digital Native: Narendra Modi’s interview by Akshay Kumar is a PR masterpieceHow to spot the influencer in your politics.
28 Apr 2019
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Digital Native: Getting through an election made for the social media gazeIn the poll season, social media platforms thrive on wounded outrage disguised as politics.
24 Mar 2019
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Digital Native: Lessons from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp going downThe day when three social-media apps refused to load.
10 Mar 2019
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Digital Native: How an information overload affects what you forwardThe information overload of social media sharing can make us act against our better judgement.
24 Feb 2019
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What I learned from going offline for 48 hoursA weekend without the internet shows just how much control we surrender to online chatter.
4 Feb 2019
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India’s proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese lawsThe proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese restrictions. The new intermediaries liability and content monitoring act that will become a law in February, unquestioningly expand the remit of the government.
31 Dec 2018
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Digital Native: System Needs a RebootIt’s time to replace the schizophrenic need for variety with ingenuity — the truthiness of the information.
11 Nov 2018
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Digital Native: One Selfie Does a Tragedy MakeThe great find of this century – life’s worth just a selfie. Channeling the inner narcissus is now human hamartia.
1 Nov 2018
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Digital Native: Time to Walk the Talk#MeToo has turned victims into survivors, but social media remains an unsafe space.
1 Nov 2018
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Digital Native: Hashtag FatigueIt is easy to hijack hashtags by coupling them with others. It is equally easy to make hashtags die.
30 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: Hardly Friends Like ThatIndividual effort is far from enough to fool Facebook’s grouping algorithm.
23 Sep 2018
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The Right Words for LoveQueer love is legal. Which means that all of us are finally free to find a language that can match our desires.
9 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: #MemeTooAn old meme shows the need for emotional literacy in our digitally saturated age. Memes, like regrettable exes, have the habit of resurfacing at regular periods.
4 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: Playing GodGoogle’s home assistant can make you feel deceptively God-like as it listens to every command of yours. It is a device that never sleeps, and always listens, waiting for a voice to utter “Ok Google” to jump into life.
4 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: Double SpeakAadhaar’s danger has always been that it opens up individuals to high levels of vulnerability without providing safeguards.
29 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018
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Digital Native: How smart cities can make criminals out of denizensPeople download information and share it without knowing about the intellectual property rights. On social media bullying, harassment and hate speech find easy avenues.
1 Jul 2018
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Digital Native: The bigger pictureFor all our sleek machines, we are slaves to the much larger Internet of Things.
26 Jun 2018
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Digital Native: Cause an EffectAadhaar is a self-contained safe system, its interaction with other data and information systems is also equally safe and benign.
1 Jun 2018
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Digital Native: Web of WanderThe idea of travel as a way of expanding our horizon has now been made redundant.
22 Apr 2018
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Digital Native: The e-wasteland of our timesHow digitising isn’t necessarily a fast-track to a sustainable future.
8 Apr 2018
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Digital Native: Delete Facebook?You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.