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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah
About the AuthorShashidhar Nanjundaiah
The writer has headed and taught at schools of media and communication
    Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | This election in India challenged the narrative of trust & distrustColumnists
    Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | This election in India challenged the...

    From the look on the faces of Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge at the June 4 press conference as captured and...

    7 Jun 2024 12:10 AM IST

    Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Campuses erupt in US: Can India, world learn lessons?Columnists
    Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Campuses erupt in US: Can India, world learn...

    Columbia University in New York is in the news in India after the university’s president ordered police raids on the...

    7 May 2024 12:01 AM IST

    Free speech law stops at the gates of private spaces. (Image: Freepik)Opinion
    Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Threats to free speech rise as global...

    To say that our world has become much more polarised than before after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine would be to...

    20 Dec 2023 12:03 AM IST

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

    Last week, the US Supreme Court issued two momentous judgments that may resonate around the world, including in India....

    8 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

    Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Uncertainty in classrooms amid ChatGPT disruptionsOpinion
    Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Uncertainty in classrooms amid ChatGPT...

    ChatGPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transfer) is an exciting new arrival that was launched on November 30, 2022. It is a...

    24 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

    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)Opinion
    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 12:08 AM IST

    Upper castes are nearly twice as likely to have high or moderate exposure to social media as Dalits and tribals. (Photo: Representational/Pexels)Opinion
    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 March 2022 1:12 AM IST

    Over the last week of October 2021, the UN-sponsored Global Media and Information Week in South Africa, with Indias participation, resolved to fight disinformation by improving peoples ability to counter it. (Photo: UNICEF)Opinion
    Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Can media literacy efforts ensure info...

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

    3 Dec 2021 11:15 PM IST

    Not complying with one of the rules mandated by the Indian government has cost Twitter dearly, as it lost the very legal cover that would have enabled it to be treated as an intermediary. (AFP Photo)Opinion
    Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Twitter vs Govt: Free speech, interrupted

    In real terms, this means that the social media platform will now be responsible for what the Twitterati say

    19 Jun 2021 12:45 AM IST

    Earlier, in his monthly Mann ki Baat radio address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said a powerful positivity message needs to go out. (PTI)Opinion
    Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Positivity effect: Govt has to do things...

    Rather than viewing criticism negatively, the criticism-averse govt can also help transform public perceptions by...

    18 May 2021 7:24 AM IST

    The dossier said that Pakistani spies are posing as spiritual gurus or baba on the social media like You Tube and are targeting service personnel and their family members. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | New online, digital code fails to empower...

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

    2 March 2021 10:16 AM IST

    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)Opinion
    Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Hashtag power: Twitter, govt in fight for...

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

    23 Feb 2021 4:45 AM IST

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