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User is being manipulated at every stage on platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter etc.

People must be smarter than the tools

Cyber Security experts often ask one tough question, why is it that people feel the need to put up everything on social...

28 March 2018 1:34 AM IST

Film actors click selfies at a 2014 film awards event.

Stuck in selfie state?

Selfitis is not a classifiable mental disorder, but further research is needed on its psychosocial impact.

21 March 2018 2:01 AM IST

Famous Selfie: Ellen DeGeneres tweeted an image of selfie with Bollywood superstars taken at 2014 Oscar awards.

Are You Suffering from Selfitis?

Everyone is clicking selfies. But is this a symptom of an epidemic? No, not necessarily, say experts.

21 March 2018 1:59 AM IST

Social media, created to connect people, has turned into an effective tool for propagandists to manipulate public opinion. They feed off the fact that people trust messages sent by their friends and families. A complex regulatory mechanism involving various stake holders is need to end the menace.

Silicon logic stumps users

India is no different whether it is fake news or propaganda.

12 March 2018 2:39 AM IST

World is more divided than before though its not just because of social media. People were already divided; but all of this is getting exaggerated by social media.

The good, bad and the ugly

The creators and practitioners of social media tech are themselves on a learning curve even as they try to rein in the...

12 March 2018 2:32 AM IST

Parents wait for news after a reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. (Photo: AP)

Universities can educate world on tolerance

Universities reflect the times we live in; one that is more intolerant than we would like it to be.

6 March 2018 1:34 AM IST

Students take part in a protest demanding the release of JNU student union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, accused of sedition, in New Delhi in Feb. 2016.

Intolerance is engineered

Students becoming pawns on political chess board. Course contents have a strong political flavour.

6 March 2018 1:33 AM IST

Violence denotes failure of social imagination

Erosion of academic sobriety of universities paves the way for abuse of freedom of expression one way or another.

6 March 2018 1:32 AM IST

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Can we conquer the human urge to win by force?

Neither can nations go weapon-less, nor can free-market guarantee peace.

28 Feb 2018 3:11 AM IST

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In war, there is big money

Powerful nations, despots and weapon-makers make a killing from arms deals, contracts for rebuilding war-ravaged...

28 Feb 2018 3:09 AM IST

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Insecurities fuelling boom

Flow of weapons from arms manufacturers to importing states has risen the fastest in the past decade.

28 Feb 2018 3:07 AM IST

Academic critics, Leave art alone

Academic critics, Leave art alone

It is the prerogative of artists and writers to decide the construct of their work, doesn't matter what context academic...

18 Feb 2018 3:31 AM IST