How do established TV journalists engage with the possibilities offered by a new technology of ne... more How do established TV journalists engage with the possibilities offered by a new technology of newsmaking? Pondering this issue amidst the media boom in India, this chapter examines the journalistic practice of leading TV news anchors on Twitter. Two specific aspects of their practice on Twitter are examined here: variations in their messaging behaviour, and shifts in their opinions towards political actors. We draw on a corpus of over 2000 tweets generated by three leading TV news anchors—the most followed Indian journalists on Twitter that year—over a period of 13 months leading to the national elections of May 2014. National elections, the biggest news spectacle in India offer an exciting moment to examine journalistic practices, especially changes in journalists’ opinions towards key political and electoral actors. The corpus of tweets is investigated into at two levels. At the enumerative level, we profile the volume and frequency of tweets, the people and issues drawn attentio...
This article provides a broad overview of the definition of web-based surveys examining some of t... more This article provides a broad overview of the definition of web-based surveys examining some of the benefits and bur-dens related to using the Web for data collection. It draws upon the experience of two years of data collection on 10 uni-versity campuses demonstrating that there are ...
This paper reports on a qualitative study conducted in the summer of 2007 in Delhi, India where n... more This paper reports on a qualitative study conducted in the summer of 2007 in Delhi, India where nearly 60 call center employees were interviewed in focus group settings to evaluate issues related to the quality of life of the workers. The findings suggest that a this scenario presents an opportunity to develop Web-based training tools for process and culture training of the workers to ensure that they remain with their job and improve the quality of the work experience. Based on the data collected, one of the key opportunities is to develop Web-based training tools that will allow for better acculturation of the employees.
... the process of enrichment involved several different initiatives including extensive networki... more ... the process of enrichment involved several different initiatives including extensive networking of student residence halls, classrooms, the library and most office buildings as well as providing all incoming students (beginning the Fall of 1996) with an IBM ThinkPad computer. ...
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
The use of narrative bits – narbs – has been discussed as an alternative means of looking at opin... more The use of narrative bits – narbs – has been discussed as an alternative means of looking at opinions of those who are producing narbs, for instance, in the form of tweets. The American carrier, United Airlines, came under media attention in April 2016 when a passenger was forcibly removed from a flight. This resulted in a spike in tweets around the #unitedairlines and the narrative that emerged from a selection of the tweets demonstrate that there were negative opinions not only about the airlines, but also about the aviation industry and passengers. This analysis demonstrates that it is increasingly important to supplement traditional learning of contemporary affairs with a systematic analysis of narbs that offer alternative perspectives of what the traditional learning offers.
Today there are talking toasters, cars that start themselves using voice recognition, and telepho... more Today there are talking toasters, cars that start themselves using voice recognition, and telephones that use voice commands. But those are not the only examples of digital sound. The ubiquitous earbuds and tiny MP3 players show how common it is to listen to digital music. Digital Music: Computers That Make Music examines digital sound's basic principles, history, physics, and different formats and how it became so prevalent in the digital world. Because the Internet has made it so easy to share digital files, this volume includes a discussion of the legal implications of sharing music and other files. This accessible title also considers some of the possible trends in the future of digital music.
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fifth Edition
The controversy surrounding the way in which data was obtained and used by a private corporation,... more The controversy surrounding the way in which data was obtained and used by a private corporation, Cambridge Analytica, in connection with the US Presidential election of 2016 begs a series of questions and points to the critical connection between big data and a variety of fundamental human imperatives such as privacy and freedom of expression amongst others. This chapter uses the issues surrounding the controversy as a point of departure to explore two related issues – first the way in which the “technologically alienated” individual makes technological decisions without being mindful of the consequences of the technological choices and secondly the way in which the alienation can be utilized to obtain detailed information from the structured and unstructured data that makes up the gigantic corpus of big data.
AbstractThe television serial Mahabharat on state-owned Doordarshan uncovers a national Image tha... more AbstractThe television serial Mahabharat on state-owned Doordarshan uncovers a national Image that is primarily concentrated around Hindu practices of the Hindispeaking hegemony of northern India. Doordarshan’s India emerges as one where other non-Hindi and non-Hindu practices are represented as marginal and sometimes deviant. This paper examines the use of sound, language, visual images and the various connections between the textual elements to establish that serials such as Mahabharat are powerful television narratives that produce and circulate a specific hegemonic and ideologically powerful national image.
SUMMARY. Distance education has taken on a new shape with the introduction of new digital technol... more SUMMARY. Distance education has taken on a new shape with the introduction of new digital technologies that have made the process of interaction between the teacher and student a far more vibrant process. This change, and the fact that distance education often ...
How do established TV journalists engage with the possibilities offered by a new technology of ne... more How do established TV journalists engage with the possibilities offered by a new technology of newsmaking? Pondering this issue amidst the media boom in India, this chapter examines the journalistic practice of leading TV news anchors on Twitter. Two specific aspects of their practice on Twitter are examined here: variations in their messaging behaviour, and shifts in their opinions towards political actors. We draw on a corpus of over 2000 tweets generated by three leading TV news anchors—the most followed Indian journalists on Twitter that year—over a period of 13 months leading to the national elections of May 2014. National elections, the biggest news spectacle in India offer an exciting moment to examine journalistic practices, especially changes in journalists’ opinions towards key political and electoral actors. The corpus of tweets is investigated into at two levels. At the enumerative level, we profile the volume and frequency of tweets, the people and issues drawn attentio...
This article provides a broad overview of the definition of web-based surveys examining some of t... more This article provides a broad overview of the definition of web-based surveys examining some of the benefits and bur-dens related to using the Web for data collection. It draws upon the experience of two years of data collection on 10 uni-versity campuses demonstrating that there are ...
This paper reports on a qualitative study conducted in the summer of 2007 in Delhi, India where n... more This paper reports on a qualitative study conducted in the summer of 2007 in Delhi, India where nearly 60 call center employees were interviewed in focus group settings to evaluate issues related to the quality of life of the workers. The findings suggest that a this scenario presents an opportunity to develop Web-based training tools for process and culture training of the workers to ensure that they remain with their job and improve the quality of the work experience. Based on the data collected, one of the key opportunities is to develop Web-based training tools that will allow for better acculturation of the employees.
... the process of enrichment involved several different initiatives including extensive networki... more ... the process of enrichment involved several different initiatives including extensive networking of student residence halls, classrooms, the library and most office buildings as well as providing all incoming students (beginning the Fall of 1996) with an IBM ThinkPad computer. ...
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
The use of narrative bits – narbs – has been discussed as an alternative means of looking at opin... more The use of narrative bits – narbs – has been discussed as an alternative means of looking at opinions of those who are producing narbs, for instance, in the form of tweets. The American carrier, United Airlines, came under media attention in April 2016 when a passenger was forcibly removed from a flight. This resulted in a spike in tweets around the #unitedairlines and the narrative that emerged from a selection of the tweets demonstrate that there were negative opinions not only about the airlines, but also about the aviation industry and passengers. This analysis demonstrates that it is increasingly important to supplement traditional learning of contemporary affairs with a systematic analysis of narbs that offer alternative perspectives of what the traditional learning offers.
Today there are talking toasters, cars that start themselves using voice recognition, and telepho... more Today there are talking toasters, cars that start themselves using voice recognition, and telephones that use voice commands. But those are not the only examples of digital sound. The ubiquitous earbuds and tiny MP3 players show how common it is to listen to digital music. Digital Music: Computers That Make Music examines digital sound's basic principles, history, physics, and different formats and how it became so prevalent in the digital world. Because the Internet has made it so easy to share digital files, this volume includes a discussion of the legal implications of sharing music and other files. This accessible title also considers some of the possible trends in the future of digital music.
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fifth Edition
The controversy surrounding the way in which data was obtained and used by a private corporation,... more The controversy surrounding the way in which data was obtained and used by a private corporation, Cambridge Analytica, in connection with the US Presidential election of 2016 begs a series of questions and points to the critical connection between big data and a variety of fundamental human imperatives such as privacy and freedom of expression amongst others. This chapter uses the issues surrounding the controversy as a point of departure to explore two related issues – first the way in which the “technologically alienated” individual makes technological decisions without being mindful of the consequences of the technological choices and secondly the way in which the alienation can be utilized to obtain detailed information from the structured and unstructured data that makes up the gigantic corpus of big data.
AbstractThe television serial Mahabharat on state-owned Doordarshan uncovers a national Image tha... more AbstractThe television serial Mahabharat on state-owned Doordarshan uncovers a national Image that is primarily concentrated around Hindu practices of the Hindispeaking hegemony of northern India. Doordarshan’s India emerges as one where other non-Hindi and non-Hindu practices are represented as marginal and sometimes deviant. This paper examines the use of sound, language, visual images and the various connections between the textual elements to establish that serials such as Mahabharat are powerful television narratives that produce and circulate a specific hegemonic and ideologically powerful national image.
SUMMARY. Distance education has taken on a new shape with the introduction of new digital technol... more SUMMARY. Distance education has taken on a new shape with the introduction of new digital technologies that have made the process of interaction between the teacher and student a far more vibrant process. This change, and the fact that distance education often ...
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