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Blog Entry Digital native: Let there be life
by Nishant Shah published Nov 19, 2017 last modified Jan 09, 2018 04:05 PM — filed under:
The first robot citizen of the world is from Saudi Arabia, and she has the dubious fame of having more rights than human counterparts in the country.
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Blog Entry Digital native: Lie Me a River
by Nishant Shah published Mar 19, 2017 — filed under: , ,
The sea of social media around us often drowns the truth, exchanging misinformation for facts.
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Blog Entry Digital native: Look before you (digitally) leap
by Nishant Shah published May 28, 2017 last modified Jun 08, 2017 01:22 AM — filed under: , ,
Creating a digital future is great, but there’s a serious need to secure the infrastructure first.
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Blog Entry Digital native: Memory card is full
by Nishant Shah published Dec 03, 2017 last modified Jan 10, 2018 02:08 AM — filed under:
We train ourselves to forget as our devices store everything. How do we remember things that matter?
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Blog Entry Digital Native: Mind Your Language
by Nishant Shah published Nov 09, 2016
The lack of localisation on the Internet is a symptom of a larger problem. It has been a festive season. Greetings are in the air. Well, realistically speaking, smoke-filled smog is in the air and greetings are all on social media. In a flood of messages — gifs, animated icons, poetic snippets, messages written in a script that looks vaguely Devanagari, and quotations that bestow glee and gladness upon all — that made their way into my social media feed, there was one that stood out.
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Blog Entry Digital Native: Narendra Modi’s interview by Akshay Kumar is a PR masterpiece
by Nishant Shah published May 05, 2019 last modified Jun 09, 2019 03:20 AM — filed under:
How to spot the influencer in your politics.
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Blog Entry Digital native: Not only words
by Nishant Shah published Jul 16, 2017 last modified Aug 07, 2017 03:33 PM — filed under: ,
Emoticons, or if you prefer the original Japanese word emojis, are everywhere. We are used to emoticons in all shapes and sizes — from animated gifs jumping out at us on our social media feed to yellow-faced smileys that we use to add tone and feeling, nuance and layers to our text-heavy conversations in the digital world.
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Blog Entry Digital Native: On mute, the Voice of the People
by Nishant Shah published Jun 24, 2017 last modified Jul 05, 2017 05:04 PM — filed under: ,
We are at the mercy of trigger-happy governments and profit-hungry corporations that hold our digital lives ransom. They have the capacity to censor, contain, control and eradicate all our digital data without our consent and without repercussions.
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Blog Entry Digital Native: One Selfie Does a Tragedy Make
by Nishant Shah published Nov 11, 2018 last modified Dec 05, 2018 02:20 AM — filed under: ,
The great find of this century – life’s worth just a selfie. Channeling the inner narcissus is now human hamartia.
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Blog Entry Digital native: Our lonely connected lives
by Nishant Shah published Mar 25, 2018 — filed under:
Even as the UK last month announced the appointment of Minister of Loneliness, which sounds more like the title of the next Arundhati Roy novel, it is worth examining why we are so alone in the age of hyperconnectivity.
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