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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | This election in India challenged the narrative of trust & distrust
7 months ago

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | This election in India challenged the narrative of trust & distrust

Deccan Chronicle  

From the look on the faces of Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge at the June 4 press conference as captured and amplified by our media platforms, an uninitiated observer might mistakenly think the Congress Party had won the general election. The statements from the party’s leaders, too, reflect this euphoria: “This is both a political and a moral defeat for …

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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Threats to free speech rise as global conflicts intensify
1 year ago

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Threats to free speech rise as global conflicts intensify

Deccan Chronicle  

To say that our world has become much more polarised than before after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine would be to state the obvious. That is truly ironic: It is the right-wingers who decry the so-called “cancel culture” and hail free speech. Free speech law stops at the gates of private spaces, although most private universities promise to follow …

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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Equity vs equality: Battle of the visible & invisible
1 year, 6 months ago

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Equity vs equality: Battle of the visible & invisible

Deccan Chronicle  

Last week, the US Supreme Court issued two momentous judgments that may resonate around the world, including in India. It put a stop to affirmative action based on race in educational institutions, then struck down US President Joe Biden’s scheme to waive education loans up to $20,000. The US affirmative action programme grants special consideration to historically excluded or underrepresented …

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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Uncertainty in classrooms amid ChatGPT disruptions
1 year, 9 months ago

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Uncertainty in classrooms amid ChatGPT disruptions

Deccan Chronicle  

ChatGPT is an exciting new arrival that was launched on November 30, 2022. In his interview with the US television network ABC on March 16, Sam Altman, the CEO behind Open AI, the company that created ChatGPT, has declared that this could be the “greatest technology that humanity has yet developed”. Instead of treating ChatGPT as a technological disruption, should …

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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Can media literacy efforts ensure info transparency?
3 years, 1 month ago

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Can media literacy efforts ensure info transparency?

Deccan Chronicle  

Over the last week of October 2021, the UN- The concept of media literacy dates back more than eight decades, but it was only in 1992 that a national leadership conference of high-level academics and policymakers in the United States discussed its academic relevance. This year, Illinois became the first American state to mandate media literacy education in its public …

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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Twitter vs Govt: Free speech, interrupted
3 years, 6 months ago

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Twitter vs Govt: Free speech, interrupted

Deccan Chronicle  

Twitter, the micro-blogging giant, is no longer the hubless network of global chatter that its model would appear to indicate. Have social media platforms been transparent with us about how it all really works, and whether it is simply an organic process like Darwin’s theory of natural selection? Twitter’s India experience also could fortify the brewing idea that after decades …

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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Positivity effect: Govt has to do things differently
3 years, 7 months ago

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Positivity effect: Govt has to do things differently

Deccan Chronicle  

Confronted with an unprecedented international media focus and global criticism from several governments as well as global health experts, state governments, analysts, reputed medical journals, and the international and national media, the Central government and the ruling party’s parent organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, have jointly begun a “positivity drive”, in effect weaving a positive bias narrative both for itself …

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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | New online, digital code fails to empower users
3 years, 10 months ago

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | New online, digital code fails to empower users

Deccan Chronicle  

The new Information and Technology Rules 2021 under Section 79 of the IT Act has created a flutter. From the press statements of minister for information and broadcasting Prakash Java-dekar and minister for information technology Ravi Shankar Prasad, it seems that the new rules seek to rein in the online media and the social media platforms by intervening in their …

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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Hashtag power: Twitter, govt in fight for survival
3 years, 10 months ago

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Hashtag power: Twitter, govt in fight for survival

Deccan Chronicle  

An Editors Guild of India webinar on February 12 on reporting from the Naxalite badlands featured song videos, pornography and abusive language. By threatening Twitter officials with jail and publicly contemplating the application of media laws to the social media, the government is putting on public display how spooked, rather than concerned, it is. People and political parties — many …

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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | The ‘perils’ of euphoria: Govt messaging flawed
4 years, 2 months ago

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | The ‘perils’ of euphoria: Govt messaging flawed

Deccan Chronicle  

“Why are you people not listening?” That might as well have been the central problem for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s seventh coronavirus-related address to the nation on October 20, when he exhorted us to adhere to the Covid-19 safety norms and not falsely assume that the coronavirus has gone. The 2020 Ig Nobel Prizes for Medical Education -- the global …

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