Online service providers (OSP)s shape the informational environment and thereby influence user experience. Given the all-pervasive nature of the web as a space that wields severe effect on reality, their influence is a multi-faceted, deeply contested aspect of human society today. This paper traces the key strands of the regulation…

This paper seeks to reflect on the orality-literacy dilemma with respect to computer mediated communication, expanded in Walter Ong’s Orality, Literacy, and Medieval Textualization, Orality literacy and Modern Media and E- Texts: The Orality and Literacy Issue Revisited by Bruce Lionel Mason. For this paper, I will be focussing on…

Naomi Klein has been quoted a lot this epidemic- because her book Shock Doctrine is almost proving prophetic in terms of how governments tend to use disasters as opportunities to ram through a corporate wish-list (read mass privatisation, tax and regulation cuts) which would otherwise be protested by the public. …

“Our life is lived in, rather than with, media”- Deuze. The term mediatisation lacks a normative definition- it is more of an evaluative concept. Mediated reality, or a society where media, and not interpersonal communication becomes the most important source of information is a scenario is independent of media ownership…

Mediatisation is the process by which, since the 1990s, the media has been influencing political communication. After the Information Revolution, this process took a drastic turn. Political communication has changed in different ways with the infusion of ICT. …