Angry people are a common sight on social media; rational arguments on the other hand, quite rare. Has the way social media has been designed got to do something with this?
The International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad has harnessed the power of social media to build a virtual warm room (call centre) to help the Covid-impacted.
Gen Z is a crowd different from their predecessors and so is their language. Here’s a quick guide to ease you into a conversation with them.
On March 15, California banned, under its Consumer Privacy Act, the practice of Dark Patterns, a method by which websites hoodwink users. India can learn a thing or two from this.
The Advertising Standards Council of India, which oversees the country’s ad market, has released a set of draft guidelines for social media influencers. While the ad industry says the new rules bring in more clarity to the chaotic influencer market, there are some worries.
The deep sulking displayed by Facebook and Google over the proposed media rule by Australia mandating the platforms to respect and pay content creators is symptomatic of the dire straits to which the platform-powered distribution ecosystem has taken news media.
The latest row around Twitter blocking hundreds of accounts in India on government diktat exposes the fault lines existing in the social media business.