Rumors about Coronavirus, its spread, and its remedies have been spreading right from the time the viral disease hit the country in March 2020. In remote areas of West Bengal, where there is less awareness and education, the problem of people believing in rumors about the disease and now, the vaccine is even more rampant. Video Volunteers CCs from the tea gardens of West Bengal have joined hands to run a coordinated campaign 'Jaan Jao, Jaan Bachao' to spread right and official information amongst the 300,000 people that live in 130 tea gardens of West Bengal.
A Call for Research on AI’s Role in Amplifying the Insights of the Systemically Unheard
The article argues that systematically ignoring and silencing the voices of the poor and marginalized worldwide does not serve society or democracy well and must be countered. While new technologies such as AI could provide an opportunity for change, we contend that these technologies need to account more effectively for...
How to Juggle a Career as a Community Correspondent as well a Mainstream Media Reporter
When the staff at Gannett newspapers in the US coined the term MOJO (Mobile Journalism) to describe new ways of gathering and distributing news using emerging technologies in 2005, they would not have imagined its virality and use ten years later. Ask new media journalists and our Community Correspondents Shah...