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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah

Free speech law stops at the gates of private spaces. (Image: Freepik)

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

In India, we have been making cautious adjustments to our understanding of free speech by watching the goings-on all around us.

20 Dec 2023 12:03 AM

US President Joe Biden. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

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

The court’s ruling on affirmative action came on the legal yardstick of strict scrutiny.

08 Jul 2023 12:10 AM

ChatGPT can formulate legal notes, spot humanly undetectable diseases, and write computer code. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Uncertainty in classrooms amid ChatGPT disruptions

ChatGPT is now a headache for educators because it can easily act as a substitute for student effort

24 Mar 2023 12:00 AM

The louder pre-alarm alarm for the news media in India and elsewhere is that not only has trust been declining, interest in news appears to have fallen across the world: a huge plunge from 63 per cent last year to 52 per cent this year. (Representational Photo:PTI)

Why people are avoiding news; and what must be done to fix things

Only 42 per cent of respondents said they trust news

19 Jun 2022 12:09 AM

It seems to me that the reader and the audience should feel a deep sense of gratitude for every individual mediaperson who is going against the grain at the cost of unspeakable abuse online, on social media and even on their own online platforms. (Representational Image/ Pexels)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Media outlets, others must do more to curtail online bullying

While the newsperson is going through her set of emotional distress, the public at large has its own issues to deal with

23 Mar 2022 1:10 AM

Over the last week of October 2021, the UN-sponsored Global Media and Information Week in South Africa, with India’s participation, resolved to fight disinformation by improving people’s ability to counter it. (Photo: UNICEF)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Can media literacy efforts ensure info transparency?

In India and many other countries where media literacy is still in its infancy, the discourse is still largely basic

03 Dec 2021 11:14 PM

Twitter’s India experience also could fortify the brewing idea that after decades of enjoying the status of being the most unregulated and unfettered among modern media technologies, the social media’s growth may be cooling off. (AFP)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Twitter vs Govt: Free speech, interrupted…

The role of social media in the current framework is not quite as simple, but whether they are completely hands-off is debatable

19 Jun 2021 7:07 AM

If the government’s intent is to provide more rights to its people, it must help soothe the nerves of people who are now confused about what to say on the social media. (Representational image:Pixabay - PixelKult)

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

Fake news is a significant reason that media literacy has emerged strongly in the education curricula around the world

02 Mar 2021 10:20 AM

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. (Photo: AFP)

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

The social media has two broad roles — the organisational and the dialogic, and it is the former that is spooking nervous governments

23 Feb 2021 4:48 AM

Beyond Covid: Towards a ‘new normal’ at work

The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing these very companies to reredefine their offices as post-Covid workplaces

18 Nov 2020 1:44 AM

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

In a communicative framework, how has our government disseminated public messages during this crisis, and to what effect?

24 Oct 2020 11:29 AM

Facebook is facing questions on its ways in several countries of the world. (AFP)

Freedom and bias: How Facebook is facing a reckoning

This year marks Facebook's growth from innocence to experience

17 Sep 2020 8:12 PM

An Indian Finance Ministry employee walks carrying files outside the ministry building on April 20, 2020. An increasing number of officers are opting to work from home amid concerns over the coronavirus epidemic in New Delhi. (AP)

Virtual working is just an option for post-corona times

What Covid-19 may indeed accelerate is a world that offers the option between physical and virtual ways of functioning

24 Apr 2020 8:31 PM

Will ‘socialist’ Bernie or ‘moderate’ Biden be best bet to take on Trump?

Whether Donald Trump will return or not depends on whether voters consider winnability as the most important factor for the contending Democrat.

07 Mar 2020 7:07 AM

By definition, liberal education and interdisciplinarity are joined at the hip, and that augurs well for the need for sets of complex competencies. (Representational image)

NEP draft 2019 might be progressive, but is its ‘liberal’ focus too idealistic?

For better or worse, a new reflexive nationalism is arising as the concept of globalisation is in decline.

05 Jul 2019 12:05 AM

Inconvenient truths: Targeting the messenger is up

The correlation between journalistic killing and journalistic freedom is unmistakable, but it is not as obvious as it may seem.

03 Jan 2019 1:17 AM

How ‘pseudo-morality’ blurs public discourse

The now-infamous remarks smack of the familiar discrimination of skin colour, eye colour, religion and gender.

04 May 2018 4:46 AM

Yet the universities that achieved the NAAC grading also somewhat paradoxically evidence the reality that serious-minded educators can indeed succeed within a given framework.

Deregulating varsities: Quality is the real issue

Currently, most of our universities suffer from uniformity, which does not offer the competitive edge.

26 Mar 2018 4:24 AM

Disrupting the myth of objectivity

Our media still shies away from expressing bias, while its counterparts in many countries do not.

17 Oct 2017 6:33 AM

Trump’s Twitterification: Truth, facts & beliefs

The Twitterification of Trump’s public discourse may have marked a degeneration in electioneering.

05 Sep 2017 12:53 AM

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