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Words of the mouse can mislead: Google Translator exposed through more fundamental evidence8 comments

harsht wrote 2 weeks ago: My previous post got advocates of artificial intelligence to accuse me of making arguments against G … more →

Tags: Media Technology and Society, language internet

Artificial Intelligence May Only Take Us So Far: The Abject Failure of Google Translator8 comments

harsht wrote 3 weeks ago: I like to experiment with language services (Hindi versions) of Google Products. Granted that I don … more →

Tags: Random Ruminations, Personal Accounts, Media Technology and Society, language internet

Here's how Kapil Sibal Should Have Dealt with Facebook or Whoever he had a problem with Online!3 comments

harsht wrote 5 months ago: Mr Kapil Sibal is upset because certain pages of a social networking site (Facebook) contains materi … more →

Tags: Media Technology and Society, 140 char economy, Social Media, India, online credibility, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press, Kapil Sibal, Government and Media Control

Quick Updates on the NASA Diwali Image Phenomenon : Socially Constructed Thruths and the Persistence of Popularity 6 comments

harsht wrote 7 months ago: October 26th ( 2:40 Pm Chicago Time Less than 48 hrs on) ;66, 248 Shares  ( three times over 22,000 … more →

Tags: Audience Behaviour/ Measurement, Media Technology and Society, shortform content, 140 char economy, ignorance, Social Media, India, User Generated content, Wisdom of Crowds

Social Media and The Problem with 'Socially Constructed Truths' : Why all Believed that the NASA Picture Was Clicked on Diwali18 comments

harsht wrote 7 months ago: India and her diaspora worldwide was excited about Divali, (the festival of lights), and for good re … more →

Tags: Audience Behaviour/ Measurement, Media Technology and Society, shortform content, 140 char economy, ignorance, Social Media, India, User Generated content, Wisdom of Crowds

Twittervolutions aren't Real Revolutions: Why India needs to take to the Streets 2 comments

harsht wrote 1 year ago: Recently there has been a lot of debate over what role social media, twitter in particular  played i … more →

Tags: Media Technology and Society, 140 char economy, twitter, Social Media, India, Anna Hazare, Twitter and revolutions, Jan Lokpal Bill

To become comfortable with the new, learn from the old:FaceBook and the Phone-Book4 comments

harsht wrote 1 year ago: Recently a friend informed me about how she ‘unfriends’ people in her FB list from time … more →

Tags: Media Technology and Society, Transition, Social Media, Digital Divide, Internet, new technologies, when old technologies were new, facebook, telephone book

One cent per character : Will celebrities help Twitter monetise?5 comments

harsht wrote 2 years ago: So as expected twitter has finally started talking more concretely about its revenue strategies inte … more →

Tags: Media Technology and Society, 140 char economy, audience behaviour, twitter, profitability of social media

Has user generated content killed old 'media logic' ?1 comment

harsht wrote 2 years ago: Recently, at a graduate students’ party somewhere in Midwestern United States, two short and s … more →

Tags: Media Technology and Society, Memoirs from Chicagoland, shortform content, Mica, Funniest ever Group Dance, Roommates, Ph.D. Comics, Social Media, profitability of social media

A nasty take on the (lack of) success of MySpace1 comment

harsht wrote 2 years ago: For the tremendous inertia that has been preventing me from posting anyting original in a long long … more →

Tags: Media Technology and Society


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