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‘Let traditional media step down from the mounted frame’
How does the onset of online media impact political and journalistic worlds? A media discussion on the euphoria of new media. By Sarah Bakata and Meha Mathur. more…
‘Link between democracy, internet access’
Keynote speakers Nancy Scola and Prof Harry Dugmore demonstrate the success of online media in impacting elections in two geographically and economically removed regions of the world, the US and Africa. By Meha Mathur and Sarah Bakata
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Multimedia
Interviews with speakers and guests, multimedia slideshows, photos, videos and audios you will get after the click. more…
Case Studies
Election violence hatched in the Kenyan blogosphere
Sending SMSs or photos over the Internet is normal. However, given a political spin, hate text messages or photos can provoke ethnic violence. This is exactly what happened in Kenya. more…
Digital victory vs. digital rigging in Bangladesh
Tired of democratic uncertainties and unstable governments, the citizens of Bangladesh used the new media to great effect in the 2008 elections. How did a small instrument such as the mobile phone change the political fortune of the country? more…
India still votes for traditional media
This IT wonder kid of the world is reluctant to embrace the application of new technology in elections. For this reason, the Indian electorate is a tough client when it comes to buying a political argument. Why? more…
YouTube, the Achilles’ heel of dictatorship
When an authoritarian government in Pakistan cracked the whip on media, an increasingly online society used the media tools to crack its whip in turn. How did the common man gain access to information in the emergency situation? more…
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The Future is ‘Mobile’
A study analyses a landslide of mobile usage in the developing world. To businesses, these figures present an ideal BoP model. With titanic shift in the number of mobile users in the South, ignore the data at your own risk. more…
Embrace technology, or else…
There’s no denying it, and studies have confirmed, that the new media is unstoppable, and journalists and media houses, who cannot adjust to the online onslaught will be pushed into oblivion. more…
The troposphere of bloggers
Blogging takes news out of the newsroom, making it a public domain. Citizens worldwide are already wide awake to the advantages of the new medium. Are the journalists ready to cash in on new possibilities? more…
How digital media pushed Obama to the presidency
How did a previously little-known senator secure the highest office in the world? Social networks and multimedia tools were successfully used to garner calls for action. The result? A groundbreaking moment in world history. more…
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The Future is ‘Mobile’ // 03.19.2009
Embrace technology, or else… // 03.19.2009
Prof. Harry Dugmore on the power of citizen journalism // 03.19.2009
Nancy Scola on politics in the new media era // 03.19.2009
‘Link between democracy, internet access’ // 03.19.2009
Multimedia // 03.18.2009
Schedule- find out what will happen on 19th March // 02.26.2009
Election violence hatched in the Kenyan blogosphere // 02.24.2009
Digital victory vs. digital rigging in Bangladesh // 02.24.2009
The power of digital media
Online and digital media are changing the face of the world. But how is the universal availability of information impacting electoral politics? Media persons and experts from across the world ponder on this issue, at the conclave on ‘Digital Media: Harnessing the Power of New Media’.
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- Jan Faizullah said there is symbiotic relationship between traditional and digital journalism. //
- Premesh Chandran said, traditional journalism will survive if they could keep up both, credible and fast //
- Keep connection after the election is also important politician. //
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