To be or not to be on Twitter
This story by Juke Carolina originally appeared on Global Voices on 19 December, 2022.When Elon Musk stepped into the Twitter HQ as the newly minted majority...
Social media elated by Nepali in BBC list
The BBC included Sapana Roka Magar, an 18-year-old voluntary crematorium worker from Nepal, in its 100 Women of 2020, a yearly list of...
Social media elated by Nepali in BBC list
The BBC included Sapana Roka Magar, an 18-year-old voluntary crematorium worker from Nepal, in its 100 Women of 2020, a yearly list of...
No freedom after expression
Prime Minister K P Oli spent 14 years in jail for opposing the Panchayat absolute monarchy. He was one of the main...
Rule by law
Nepal’s ruling unified Marxist-Leninist-Maoists have in the past year incrementally constricted freedom of expression, thinking no one will notice if they do...
Online trolls, bots & snoopers imperil democracy
Using armies of online fans, trolls and, automated ‘bots’, the world’s authoritarians and populists are increasingly using the web to drown out...
Digital detox
The surest sign that Nepal has already become an online society is the spreading practice of ‘digital detox’, where addicted users completely...
Nepal’s new digital landscape
Nepalis are now increasingly in control of the media content they consume thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices, better internet connectivity...
So, you want to quit Facebook?
Just after waking, the first thing many people across the world, and increasingly in Nepal, do is pick up their mobile phones....
THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM
There was a time until recently when we wrote editorials in this space about how the global digital divide was mirrored within...
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