Media literacy
SHOCKING. Sinister. Sanctionable. There are many ways to describe the network of anti-Pakistan, India-linked NGOs and fake media organisations uncovered by the EU DisinfoLab. These are the ‘cyber nukes’ that…
Protests, politics and the ‘un’-social media
The best way to control is to make people mindless. The best way to keep them mindless is to keep them illiterate and unaware. Education is the base of any…
News literacy
In July 2022, David Keppler, writing for the Associated Press, warned that as “trust wanes, conspiracy theories rise,” and people in the US are increasingly “rejecting what they hear from…
Lies, damn lies and social media: fake news stalks Brazil vote
In a divisive election campaign blighted by fears of unrest if far-right President Jair Bolsonaro refuses to accept defeat, Brazil is waging an uphill battle against disinformation wielded as a…
The virus of illiteracy
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." This is a principle that never fails to prove true. However, this is a principle rarely followed by most in the less…
Pseudo literacy trap
Educated illiterate. Uneducated literate. Call it whatever it is this unnoticed cadre that has added chaos and danger to the already insecure world that we live in. Most discourse centers…
Education beyond literacy
Literacy, education, information and knowledge are used interchangeably in our popular discourses as means of material and intellectual transformation and as sources of empowerment. However, they are discernibly different concepts…
Media jingoism boomerangs
Barely two weeks after a major earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people, Nepal suffered an aftershock, killing more than 70 people. Over 3.5 million people still need food assistance;…
The media’s role
Last week the Indus Resource Centre (IRC) and the Sindh Education Foundation held a joint consultative roundtable — the second such event in a series — to study the impact…
Militants` media front
MILITANCY poses a serious threat to the security and stability of Pakistan. While the government and various state institutions are trying to respond in their own way and according to…
