Media Archive
Feature Article — Dissecting Social Media: What You Should Know
Have you checked your Facebook News Feed recently? Watched a YouTube video? Posted on Instagram? Sent a Tweet? If so, you are among the 3.5 billion people worldwide who actively use social media. Social media users generate a massive amount of information, from personal posts, photos and
Social Media for Business: A Marketer’s Guide
If your small business isn’t on social media, you could be missing out on significant value, including new customers, insights into your brand, and audience and engagement opportunities with customers and competitors alike. Plus, social media can be a highly cost-effective way of reaching your customers in
Essential Tools — Social Media
If you’ve been reading the news headlines about social media for the last few years, you may be tempted to think: Merely opening a Twitter account will triple your revenue this year You’re only one blog post away from a guest spot on Oprah If you build
What Is Social Media?
Social media is a phrase we throw around a lot these days, often to describe what we post on sites and apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and others. So you can infer that social media are web-based sites that allow people to interact with each other. But if we use
How Does Social Media Affect Your Mental Health?
Facebook has delayed the development of an Instagram app for children amid questions about its harmful effects on young people’s mental health. Does social media have an impact on your well-being? What is your relationship with social media like? Which platforms do you spend the most time
Social media unites and divides us. How should we respond?
As people all over the country protest the police killing of George Floyd, social media has become the medium for amplifying marginalized voices, organizing and reporting events. It’s also where President Donald Trump and other politicians are responding. But in just the past few days, Twitter has
Opinion | A public campaign could tackle the ills of social media
Most of us, at some point of time, have experienced the perils of unbridled online content. It’s a problem with almost every widely-used medium of communication—the internet, television and social media. Even if we dislike the chatter we witness, we cannot curb people’s freedom of speech. Inflammatory
Pandemic, policing and role of social media
In the past few weeks, social media in India has emerged as a vital platform of communication between the government and citizens. In addition to sending out pandemic-related updates through various news platforms, governments today can share information directly with people. During the lockdown, social media platforms
Plea in Delhi HC seeks removal of illegal groups on social media platforms for children’s safety.
NEW DELHI : The Delhi High court on Tuesday sought response from Centre on a plea seeking directions to it to direct social media companies to remove illegal groups on their platforms for the safety and security of children in cyberspace. The plea alleges that social media
Letter: Freedom of speech should apply to social media, too
Our country is based on the foundation of freedom of religion, speech and the press. Everyone’s ideas have equal value and are judged on their own merit by each of us individually. Social media is becoming a dominant way of communicating ideas that shape our society. The