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“There are those of us who no longer read a newspaper’s print edition, and we’re not coming back. It’s now time to consider some options to ...

“But most cultural practices stop at the scale of human collectives: cities, economies, networks. You need to understand how communities now...

The way youngsters consume media today may be a telling story. It may give us a few pointers on the way news, entertainment and even educati...

The Economist.com article I had quoted from in my previous post, From literacy to digiracy , ends with: “So, no surprise that when we incarc...

“For anyone under the age of 20, the world being experienced is one where the internet has always existed, and where everyone who matters is...

Several ‘generation now’ friends of mine responded with dismay to my previous posts. They said that their generation (typically 15-24 years)...

Nothing happens in a vacuum; specifically when we speak of socio-cultural phenomena. Societies, traditions and culture evolve over time, car...

There is a great deal of talk of India’s ‘generation now’ – not just in blogs like mine, but also by the media at large. As young Indians, t...

The Inma Martinez quote in my previous post is quite interesting. Interesting, at least, on two counts: (a) the ‘generation now’ description...

“I’m on Vodafone, so lucky me, I’m one of the punters that this week can download a new track from her album every day. Yeepee-Hey. ‘Candy S...

In my previous post, I talked about the new threat of ‘illegal downloading’ (colloquially termed ‘piracy’) which is changing the business of...

The demand for, and consumption of, digital music is going through frantic change. Digital technology may have made distribution of music ea...

I can think of only one reason for this recent surge of personal interaction/communication between youths – both online and on mobilephones....

The new relationships that we – or, at least, the youth today – are establishing using the latest mobile, telecom and Internet technologies ...

Most of my friends have given their children – particularly adolescents and teens – mobilephones to stay connected. For emergencies. The log...

Here are some excerpts from another recent article from The Economist, Our nomadic future , which make insightful reading on what may be th...

Our recent achievements in technology and the growth in social media have influenced our behaviour, redfining the way we gather information,...

The detractors of online social networking are many. Their point of view being, since (a) genuine friendships require face-to-face contact, ...

A couple of days ago, over email, a software engineer ‘friend’ I had ‘met’ on a social network mentioned that he has included me in a specia...

My nephew sms-ed me the URL of his new website yesterday. His website had a wonderful introduction by a friend of his, a girl in her late te...