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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah
About the AuthorShashidhar Nanjundaiah
The writer has headed and taught at schools of media and communication
    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

    About 12.7 per cent of the IT workforce comprises employees who thrive on their social interactions and as a result, work from home is a challenge for them, the study by SCIKEY MindMatchOpinion
    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 1:42 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)Opinion
    Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | The ‘perils’ of euphoria: Govt messaging...

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

    24 Oct 2020 11:29 AM IST

    Facebook is facing challenges to its politiIn this file photo taken on February 14, 2020 silhouettes are seen in front of the logo of US social media Facebook in Brussels. - Coronavirus lockdowns have led to a sharp increase in virtual watch parties as a way to get together with friends, and Facebook is getting in on the action.The worlds largest social network on September 14, 2020 launched Watch Together, a free feature it is rolling out globally on its Messenger communication platform. (AFP)Opinion
    Freedom and bias: How Facebook is facing a reckoning

    This year marks Facebook-'s growth from innocence to experience

    17 Sept 2020 8:10 PM IST

    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)Opinion
    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 April 2020 8:26 PM IST

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

    The biggest obstacle and challenge in the implementation of a liberal education policy would be its effective practice.

    5 July 2019 7:55 AM IST

    Two journalists from Tolo News, Afghanistans largest private broadcaster, were among the dead. Four media workers were wounded.Opinion
    Inconvenient truths: Targeting the messenger is up

    Nosy journalists, like good officers, are inconvenient pests. They won't let businesses go on as usual.

    3 Jan 2019 12:28 AM IST

    Tripura Chief Minister Biplab DebOpinion
    How pseudo-morality' blurs public discourse

    Mr Deb has shot to fame in a short period of time by following up a boundary with a sixer.

    4 May 2018 7:44 AM IST

    Government Arts College (autonomous) aims to get National Assessment and Accreditation Councils A++ grade by initiating a series of best practices.Opinion
    Deregulating varsities: Quality is the real issue

    Inter-university cooperation, lacking in India, may improve among the selected universities.

    26 March 2018 12:46 AM IST

    However, this appears only certain times; therefore you cant have access to breaking news anytime like you do on television news channels. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Disrupting the myth of objectivity

    Arguably, media bias is a deliberate instrument that triggers public bias, founded on irrationality.

    17 Oct 2017 1:11 AM IST

    US President Donald TrumpOpinion
    Trump's Twitterification: Truth, facts & beliefs

    In a reversal, Mr Trump's campaign made Twitter the consummate emotive tool and television the more rational tool.

    5 Sept 2017 1:19 AM IST

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