Author: newswriters

शालिनी जोशी…वेब समाचार आखिर पारंपरिक मीडिया के समाचारों से कैसे अलग है. इसमें ऐसा क्या विशिष्ट है जो इसे टीवी, रेडियो या अख़बार की ख़बर से आगे का बनाता है, उसे और व्यापक बना देता है.कहने को तो वेब समाचार वैसा ही है जैसा पारंपरिक मीडिया का समाचार लेकिन इसके साथ नए विचार भी जुड़ते जाते हैं. ये विचार भाषाई या संपादकीय ही नहीं, ये तकनीकी भी हैं और वेब समाचार को एक नई शक्ल मुहैया करा देते हैं,वेब समाचार ने समाचार की प्रकृति बदल दी है.समाचार के क्या मूल्य हैं पारंपरिक पत्रकारिता के अनुभव से हम जानते हैं और…

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मुकुल श्रीवास्तव।इंटरनेट नित नयी तरक्की कर रहा है, इंटरनेट ने जबसे अपने पाँव भारत में पसारे हैं तबसे हर जगत में तरक्की के सिक्के गाड़ रहा है। इंटरनेट न सिर्फ संचार जगत में क्रांतिकारी बदलाव लाने में सफल हुआ है बल्कि हमारे जीवन जीने के सलीके और जीवन शैली में भी बदलाव लाया है। शिक्षा, मेडिकल, हेल्थ, मनोरंजन की फील्ड में तो इंटरनेट अपने कारनामे दिखा ही रहा है, साथ ही अब इंटरनेट ऑफ थिंग्स के जरिये ऐसे कारनामे करने को तैयार है जिसके बारे में हम सोच भी नहीं सकते। मूलत भारत जैसे देश में इंटरनेट अब स्मार्ट फोन…

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विजय के. झा। प्रिंट और ब्रॉडकास्‍ट के बाद अब जमाना न्‍यू मीडिया का है। जवानी की ओर बढ़ रहे इस मीडिया ने नौजवानों को अपनी ओर खूब खींचा है।न्‍यू मीडिया यानी क्‍यापरिभाषा के लिहाज से देखें तो न्‍यू मीडिया में वेबसाइट, ऑडियो-वीडियो स्‍ट्रीमिंग, चैट रूम, ऑनलाइन कम्‍युनिटीज के साथ तकनीक-ऑडियो-वीडियो-ग्राफिक के मेल से तैयार कोई भी कंटेंट शामिल है। लेकिन पत्रकारों के लिए न्‍यू मीडिया का मतलब ब्‍लॉगिंग, सिटिजन या ट्रेडिशनल जर्नलिज्‍म, सोशल नेटवर्किंग और वायरल मार्केटिंग (कंटेंट की) तक सीमित माना जा सकता है।न्‍यू मीडिया की ताकत क्‍याइंटरएक्टिविटी- आप रीडर तक खबर टेक्‍स्‍ट, साउंड, विजुअल, इंफोग्राफ किसी भी रूप में…

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Digital Security: Glossary Ad-tracking – When we browse the web, we can be tracked by many different entities: a lot of websites sell our data to advertising companies by installing small pieces of code that observe our browsing behaviour and keep track of our activities all over the web. Anonymity – A term that generally refers to situations where an author or artist prefers not to connect their work to their official name, in the internet anonymity is a condition where a user can hide their identity, location, and other identifying details while connecting to the web, browsing websites, sending emails, chatting, sharing files, etc. Different…

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By TAYLOR MULCAHEYIt’s a journalist’s duty to clearly and responsibly communicate reliable information to the general public. During a global health crisis, like the one we face now with the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, this role becomes ever more critical.“There is so much ‘fog’ in stories like this, it is your responsibility to try to cut through that to get a clear picture of what is going on,” said Shenzhen-based freelance journalist Michael Standaert, who writes for Bloomberg, as well as The Guardian, Al Jazeera and more. Standaert has been reporting on the virus…

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Before COVID-19, children would spend a lot of the day at school. There they would be taught about internet safety and be protected when going online by systems that filter or restrict access to online content.Schools provide protective environments to restrict access to content such as pornography and gambling. They also protect children from various threats such as viruses and unmoderated social media.Read more: https://theconversation.com/cyber-threats-at-home-how-to-keep-kids-safe-while-theyre-learning-online-136264

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Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technologyAcross the world, governments and health authorities are working together to find solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, to protect people and get society back up and running. Software developers are contributing by crafting technical tools to help combat the virus and save lives. In this spirit of collaboration, Google and Apple are announcing a joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus, with user privacy and security central to the design.Since COVID-19 can be transmitted through close proximity to…

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Apple and Google operating systems power 99% of smartphones. They  plan to allow only public health authorities to use the technologyThe Apple-Google decision to not allow GPS data collection with their contact tracing system will require public health authorities that want to access GPS location to rely on what Apple and Google have described as unstable, battery-draining workaroundsApple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new contact tracing system the two are building to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.Apple and Google, whose operating…

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Alexis C. MadrigalEven if you avoid the conspiracy theories, tweeting through a global emergency is messy, context-free, and disorientingA few minutes before 11 p.m. on January 20, Eric Feigl-Ding was pretty much just another guy on the internet. Sure, he is a Harvard-affiliated public-health researcher who lives in Washington, D.C., and has multiple degrees, but his Twitter account was nothing special. He had about 2,000 followers—a modest count on a scale that reaches into the millions—and his average tweet got about one retweet and five likes.That all changed when Feigl-Ding read a paper about the new coronavirus spreading out of…

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