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By Adrija Bose Heading towards a barren road, 21-year-old Qaiser Yousuf, a UPSC aspirant, walks a kilometre to an ancient Chinar tree outside their village to make a call to his classmate to download notes. After struggling for more than an hour in the cold to receive a network, Yousuf removes his gaze from the phone screen with a sigh of relief after his notes are downloaded. As he makes his way back to his house, he recalls the countless times he had to endure ridicule and mockery from his classmates in Srinagar, who couldn't believe the struggles he faced just to access the phone network. “...
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By Hera Rizwan According to the Mobile Internet Connectivity Report 2023, published by the Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA), there is a growing prevalence of smartphone ownership on a global scale. GSMA is an association representing the interests of mobile operators and the broader mobile industry worldwide. As per the findings, around 4.3 billion individuals, accounting for 55% of the world's population, are now smartphone owners. Moreover, the report reveals that there are 4.6 billion users of mobile internet, and a significant portion of this, 4 billion, accesses the internet via ...
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By Titha Ghosh Akansha*, a freelance web developer confessed that while working in a male-dominated industry like Web3, it is commonplace to be preyed upon by men. A week ago, a colleague’s post about an incident of sexual harassment had gone viral. “I was there with her that night. We’ve all been at the receiving end of sexually coloured remarks and messages,” Akansha added. Akansha’s colleague Ankita had taken to X a few days after her resignation, detailing a manager’s wrongful conduct during an event, to which newcomers and industry stalwarts were invited, to showcase recent innovations wi...
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By Puja Bhattacharjee Kedar Raj is hooked on his phone all day, every day. It is full of social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, and dating apps like Grindr, Planet Romeo, and Tinder. His phone constantly buzzes, indicating incoming text messages, often from multiple apps. As soon as he wakes up, he sifts through the text messages on his phone, replying to some while scheduling counseling sessions for HIV/AIDS prevention. He is one among the many virtual navigators at the Humsafar Trust-led Project NETREACH, which operates under the aegis of the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), M...
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By The Conversation Marian Selorm Sapah, University of GhanaIt’s hard for many of us to imagine a world without instant, limitless internet access. Some have even argued that it should, alongside access to clean water and electricity, be considered a basic human right. But in fact only 64.4% of the global population as of January 2023 are internet users. Asia and Europe are home to most of the people who are connected. Africa comes in third. However, accessibility varies wildly across the continent. About 66% of people in southern Africa are internet users. In east Africa the figure is 26%; it...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar A satirical video is viral as Irish singer and songwriter Bob Geldof predicting the future of the internet during a 1999 interview with BBC Newsnight. BOOM found that the video does not feature Geldof but shows comedian Michael Spicer, who made the spoof video based on a wide-ranging interview by singer David Bowie in 1999. In the viral video, Spicer playing Bowie, talks in detail about how the internet would lead to social media, the spread of misinformation and targeted advertisements in the future. He says that people would waste hours watching cute videos of cats ...
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By BOOM Team Controversial social media personality and former kickboxer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested by Romanian authorities on Thursday on charges of human trafficking and rape. Tate's arrest comes a day after he had a Twitter spat with climate activist Greta Thunberg after he flaunted the emissions of the 33 supercars he owns. Thunberg's response to Tate made headlines with Twitter users criticising Tate for bullying a teenager. Tate has been a controversial figure, who is known to target women and promote misogyny through his online content. In light of the action by R...
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By The Conversation Don't say 'just don't go online' because adults wouldn't do that if something happened in the real world. If you got followed home, it's not like [they would say]: "Hey, stop leaving the house." Help the person understand that it wasn't their fault and try to help them through it – be a shoulder to cry on, but don't try and affect their social life personally. (15-year-old girl) Young people are often reluctant to involve adults in their online lives. Many fear that parents and teachers will misunderstand or "overreact" in response to what they mostly regard as normal, unpr...
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By The Conversation Malte Rödl , University of Manchester and Jutta Haider , University of Borås Almost everyone thinks they know how to use Google, and they usually get the answer they want. Many will intuitively know that the query "milk good for you" leads to different results than "milk bad for you". The same goes for queries for "climate change" versus "climate hoax", or for "2020 US Elections valid" versus "stop the steal". Since search engines are more a "wish list" than an authoritative source, they can help spread mis- and disinformation which can be harmful for democracy or society. ...
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