
Here only to absolve myself of the academic sin of not being here | PhD candidate @labexicca | I do research on platforms and media issues from India.
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I enjoyed a lot this article that analyzes the impact of Google News Initiative in India. As Google through its cash increasingly controls the media research narrative across the world, such work is particularly valuable and needed. #media #journalism #tech #research #academia
Some research I have patiently waited to share is finally out in the @IJoC_USC ! I discuss how GNI embeds three distinct dependencies within Indian newsrooms. It's the first solo article stemming from my doctoral research. 🚨OA - Fishing for thoughts!
ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/arti…
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🚨23 Senior Delhi Police officers have been empowered to issue takedown orders for 'illegal content' to intermediaries, including social media companies, under the IT Act!
🧵Some context on why this is alarming!
hindustantimes.com/cities/de…
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In his work, @rgorwa underlines importance of political will in understanding how states shape platforms formally and informally global.oup.com/academic/prod…
In her work @simranoff_ shows how states sometimes seek to exercise "governance through platforms" sciencespo.fr/public/chaire-… 2/6
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🚨 New article alert!
Our expert @simranoff_ critically analyzes the @GoogleNewsInit in India, exploring its structure, implementation, and impact since 2018. Published in the @IJoC_USC (open access).
ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/arti…
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It was real pleasure to be part of this #AOIR2024 panel with brilliant scholars @nadjaschaetz, @ASchjoett, Yarden Skop, @thesangeetkumar and @simranoff_. Thank you @snurb_dot_info for offering to chair the session and writing up the take-aways! We missed you @JannieHart!
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#BREAKING: Bombay High Court's "Tie-Breaker" Judge Justice Atul Chandurkar holds the amendments to IT Rules for establishing Fact Check Units (FCUs) to be illegal and ultra vires to Articles 14, 19 and 21.
J Chandurkar agrees with Justice Gautam Patel's views and strikes down the amendments to IT Rules, 2023
Replying to @LiveLawIndia
#Breaking; Justice Atul Chandurkar agrees with the opinion of Justice Gautam Patel and strikes down the amendments to the IT Rules, 2023.
J Chandurkar, "I am of the opinion that the amendments are violative of Article 14 and Article 19 of the Constitution of India."
@kunalkamra88
#BombayHighCourt #ITAmendments #KunalKamra
Simran Agarwal retweeted
The Policy reportedly states that the content should not be “indecent, obscene or anti-national.” Some reports also suggest that the Policy includes penalties for posting objectionable content ranging from 3 years imprisonment to life. 3/4
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In a direct attempt to stifle online speech & expression, @MIB_India wants to regulate online content on “news & current affairs”, by sneaking in revisions to the Broadcasting Bill, 2023.
How does this affect content creators & all of us? 1/7🧵👇
hindustantimes.com/india-new…
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[Journée d'études]
Le programme officiel de la JE "Politiques culturelles : évolution, pertinence et influence" est disponible.
L'événement aura lieu le 24 mai 2024 au sein du Campus Condorcet et en ligne !
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Oh boy! Always knew the obscure doctoral work on smell and caste will one day be handy in a public debate. Smells carry caste & discrimination. How we smell & what we smell is deeply political & in our case, framed by caste. Read more here. DM for pdf.
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I have received an overwhelmingly positive response on this launch from so many people. A lot of comments from young people who eat non-veg food saying “now my parents can also use zomato”.
I would like to repeat that this feature strictly serves a dietary preference. And I know there are a lot of customers who would never order food from a restaurant which serves meat, irrespective of their religion/caste.
But why did we need to separate the fleets? Because despite everyone's best efforts, sometimes the food spills into the delivery boxes. In those cases, the smell of the previous order travels to the next order, and may lead to the next order smelling of the previous order. For this reason, we had to separate the fleet for veg orders.
Please note that participation in our Veg delivery fleet will not discriminate on the basis of our delivery partner’s dietary preferences.
There’s an opinion that some societies and RWAs will now not let our regular fleet in. We will stay alert for any such cases and work with these RWAs to not let this happen. We understand our social responsibility due to this change, and we will not back down from solving it when the need arises.
And I promise, that if we see any significant negative social repercussions of this change, we will roll it back in a heartbeat.
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Are accusations of political funding being no less than extortion true? Is there a pattern?
In Part 2 of the EXCLUSIVE @newslaundry-@thenewsminute investigation, @tweets_prateekg, @thekorahabraham, @nanduagain, and @Basantrajsonu find out.
newslaundry.com/2024/02/21/p…
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JOB OPPORTUNITY: Senior Research and Teaching Associate in "Media & Internet Governance" at the University of Zurich. See: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/s…
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Congratulations to @nermin_elsherif for receiving the Student Paper Award at #aoir2023! The committee congratulated her on an ethnographic approach which challenges Western-centric perspectives focusing on the “modernizing” potential of digital technologies😍 so well deserved!!!
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The State Government of Manipur has reportedly "lifted" the Internet Shutdown in Manipur. I would urge journalists to scrutinise this claim especially how they craft their headlines.
The internet has not been "partially" lifted but to a, "small" and "negligible" number of users of the total pie. Wireline will prefer institutional and users on higher income groups that comprise a "tiny" number of users of the total pie. Even for them severe restrictions include banning WiFi hotspots, social media, VPNs. Also includes "enforced social monitoring" that can mean anything.
It is my firm belief the internet shutdown is to serve State interests in avoiding accountability and contouring the media ecology than any evidentiary law and order objective.
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A development to 👀 IMO OpenAI isn’t in this just for preempting regulation/PR. It’s also trying to get ahead of the curve re the use of GAI products in newsrooms, consolidating its “infrastructure” power and does this cleverly by ✍️ deals with 1/2
OpenAI has begun funneling money to local journalism outlets, @sarafischer reports. As her article notes, both Meta and Google adopted the same strategy when threatened with regulation and declining public support.🧵1/
axios.com/2023/07/18/openai-…
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It was a pleasure talking to @wturvill about my work on funding intermediaries & platform funding for journalism: pressgazette.co.uk/platforms….
If you want to read my article after reading Will’s piece, let me know & I’ll share it with you (paywalled here: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…).
Why have Google and Meta made many thousands of 'philanthropic' payments to the global news industry? In the face of much "obfuscation", @CharisPapaev tracked 6,773 Google News Initiative and Facebook Journalism Project payments to figure out some answers. pressgazette.co.uk/platforms…
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Let me translate this from a content monetization angle: Twitter is going freemium. You can be angry & appalled, but this was to be expected. Social media has never been a public square, it’s always been a commercial service. Now the commercial is just getting more obvious
Elon Musk@elonmusk1 Jul 2023🇺🇸!
United StatesConnected via United States App StoreLocation may be affected by a proxy or VPN.Account-level information, not a live location or per-post device.
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
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Yes, this is indeed terrible. Also, as per press statements by the Minister of State for IT this Digital India Bill was supposed to be made available for public comment in the first week of June. Where is it?
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Did you miss the @PlatGov conference? Read all about it on @datasociety points. Plat Gov scholars @simranoff_ and @CharisPapaev summarized and synthesized themes across the presentations points.datasociety.net/highl…































