online

Face-to-face to counter Facebook

How Nepal can develop ‘herd immunity’ against disinformation, lies and propaganda on social media

Sakar Pudasaini

The death of print is exaggerated

The Year of Covid hit economies hard, and none more so than the media business which depends mainly on advertising. With sales down and...

Newswomen

Sahina Shrestha, Digital Products StrategistAs the results of the Sharecast Initiative Nepal Survey 2020 featured in this issue show, Nepal is going digital in...

Online trolls, bots & snoopers imperil democracy

Using armies of online fans, trolls and, automated ‘bots’, the world’s authoritarians and populists are increasingly using the web to drown out...

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 connectivity...

Sonia Awale

THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM

There was a time until recently when we wrote editorials in this space about how the global digital divide was mirrored within...

Long shadows

The year since the Nepal Communist Party government came to power has seen a creeping squeeze on the media space, both on...

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...