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Face-to-face to counter Facebook
How Nepal can develop ‘herd immunity’ against disinformation, lies and propaganda on social media
People-to-people at India-Nepal border
Minor girls from Nepal stopped at the Indian border at Gaddachowki last week by an anti-trafficking group. They are handed over to their parents…
The social media contagion
Bhabindra Ghimire was admitted to Teku Hospital when his oxygen levels dropped after testing positive for Covid-19 in April. With nothing to do…
The social media contagion
Bhabindra Ghimire was admitted to Teku Hospital when his oxygen levels dropped after testing positive for Covid-19 in April. With nothing to do…
Privacy is power
You either have it or you don’t, a netizen’s guide
With temples locked up, Nepalis improvise
A girl worships in a locked up Ganesh temple in Kuleshwor in Kathmandu this week. All photos: Rajani MaharjanFor decades, Dhanamaya Singh…
From letters to landlines, phones to Facebook
When Kalim Miya in the UAE and Bhumika in Kuwait found themselves stranded abroad after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, they took to social…
Crossborder cybercrime and punishment
Photo : BIKRAM RAIRama married Raju of Lalitpur, after which Raju moved to Sydney to pursue higher education. The couple talked regularly over…
No freedom after expression
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIPrime Minister K P Oli spent 14 years in jail for opposing the Panchayat absolute monarchy. He was one of the main…
Rule by law
Illustration: SUBHAS RAINepal’s ruling unified Marxist-Leninist-Maoists have in the past year incrementally constricted freedom of expression,…
Bringing Silicon Valley to Kathmandu Valley
Artificial Intelligence is here, better get used to it
Online trolls, bots & snoopers imperil democracy
Photo: ERICK KABENDERA/IPSUsing armies of online fans, trolls and, automated ‘bots’, the world’s authoritarians and populists are increasingly…
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…
So, you want to quit Facebook?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAJust after waking, the first thing many people across the world, and increasingly in Nepal, do is pick up their mobile…
THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM
Source: SHARECAST INITIATIVE NEPALThere was a time until recently when we wrote editorials in this space about how the global digital divide was…
India’s new social media politics
Photo: PROJECT SYNDICATE AFPNEW DELHI – What role has social media played in India’s election?Conventional wisdom had it that, in the Indian…
Facebook nation
Pic: MONIKA DEUPALAWith 91% of individuals now owning at least one mobile device and almost half of them smartphones, the number of Nepalis…
New news
Nepal Media Survey 2019When enumerators from Sharecast Initiative Nepal fanned out across the country in January, they asked more than 4,100…
Zip up
Bhanu BhattaraiFreedom of expression is enshrined in Nepal’s 2015 constitution, and the K P Oli government has repeatedly assured the public…
Searching
The aptly titled movie Searching is a film for our times. In an era where youngsters haven’t touched a physical newspaper for the past five…
The new reality of Nepal’s virtual celebrities
Four years ago, Lemi Tamang was just another fine arts student in Kathmandu when she started posting her makeup photos and videos on Instagram,…
Bypassing Trump on climate action
Photo: KUNDA DIXITPresident Donald Trump may have announced that he intends to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, but the United States is…
Gagging the press in installments
UNDERPASS: It looks like you forgot that there is now a new law that forbids disclosure of the private information of public officials.…