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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

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…

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…

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…

डॉ0 राजेश कुमार अध्यक्ष, स्कूलऑफ मीडिया एंड कम्युनिकेशन स्टडीज एवं अध्यक्ष, पब्लिकरिलेसन्स कौंसिल ऑफ इंडिया, देहरादून चैप्टर हाल के वर्षों में भारत देश में किशोरों द्वारा इन्टरनेट आधारित सेवाओं के प्रयोग एवं उनपर उपलब्ध सामग्री के उपभोग में अतिशय वृद्धि हुई है. इन्टरनेट एंड मोबाइल एसोसिएशन ऑफ इंडिया एवं निल्सन के मई 2020 में प्रकाशित रिपोर्ट – “डिजिटल इन इंडिया – 2019 राउंड2” के अनुसार भारत में 12 वर्ष की आयु से अधिक उम्र की कुल जनसंख्या का 40 प्रतिशत सक्रिय इन्टरनेट उपभोक्ता हैं और इसमें 31 प्रतिशत इन्टरनेट उपभोक्ता 12-19 आयु वर्ग के हैं. स्पष्ट है कि किशोरों का…

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Prof. Subhash Dhuliya The advent of the internet also marked the beginning of the unprecedented era of the ‘New Media’. This was a symbol of a paradigm shift from traditional media to the new brand of journalism and media. This incredible shift changed the dynamism of information and content consumption. It transformed the way information was shared. It enabled faster movement and easy accessibility of information, cutting across global borders. As technology progressed and people adapted to this progress at a fast pace, a significant transformation was witnessed in the nature and character of the New Media. The New Media…

ANDREA PRAT The media is different from other industries. Besides providing consumers with services they value as individuals, like entertainment and information, it also supplies a public good that benefits us as a society. In a modern democracy, the media keeps a nation informed about its government. The media helps to inform our votes, providing information that leads us to elect (or not) our governing officials. This is a public good because its use among an entire citizenry benefits each member of that citizenryAt least since Thomas Jefferson, we understand that democracy requires a well-functioning media industry. Reporting keeps citizens…

MODES OF DOCUMENTARIESWhat is a documentary? Webster’s dictionary defines documentary as “consisting of documents: written down.” Wikipedia defines a documentary as “a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspects of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record.”It also opens into the history of documentaries while referencing Bill Nichols‘classic text Introduction to Documentary, where he outlines the six modes of documentaries. While there’s a lot of variation within, these are the six main categories of the genre in which all documentary films can be cast. Nichols identifies six different documentary ‘modes’ in his schema:PoeticExpositoryObservationalParticipatoryReflexivePerformativeWhile Nichols’…