Empowered Yet Exposed: Disability in the Age of Technology
-Ajita Devkota In this era, technology has become our heart and brain. We live with technology, we grow with technology, and we shape our perspectives based on what digital media presents to us. Technology has granted us freedom, agency, and the power to...
Which Animal Are You?
Not Just a Rumor: Living Through Digital Violence
-Firefly We are in the 21st century where technology and social media is very popular among us. People use it for their day to day basis and life without it seems almost impossible. However, in this era of technology, I am scared to use it all because of that one...
Unsolicited Nudes and Digital Abuse, Not Flirtation
-Binisha maharjan When I was a teenager, I used Facebook and Messenger to connect with my family and friends. As a playful and innocent girl, I liked to share pictures and write statuses every now and then. It wasn’t the era of followers and follow-backs yet,...
Quarterly Media Monitoring Report (Apr – June 2023)
अभिवाक्ति स्वतन्त्रता र प्रविधिमा आधारित/ अनलाईन हिंसा जूनको महिनालाई प्राईड मान्थ भनिन्छ | विविध पहिचान बोकेका क्वेर समुदाय (लैंगिक पहिचान, लैंगिक अभिव्यक्ति, यौनिक अभिमुखीकरण, र यौनिक विशेषता) भएका व्यक्तिहरूले यस महिनालाई उत्सवको रूपमा मनाउने गर्दछन् । सो उत्सव...
My Love-Hate Relationship with Dating Apps
Written by Bibhu I installed Tinder for the first time a few years ago to ‘get over’ an ugly breakup. Extraordinarily soon after pledging singlehood, I needed to fall into one dalliance then another. Or so to speak, my body asked for one. My best friend had...
Quarterly Media Monitoring Report (Jan – Mar 2023)
गोपनीयता र डाटाको गोपनीयताको गफ पछिल्लो तीन महिनामा गोपनियता भंग भएका केहि घटनाहरु हामीले अवलोकन गर्यौँ । यी घटनाहरुलाई हेर्दा यो राज्य पक्ष र सेवा प्रदायकको प्रत्यक्ष लापरवाही थियो, साथै यसको परिणाम अनलाइन माध्यमबाट हुने विभिन्न हिंसा (जस्तै मानसिक हिंसा) को कारक पनि...
How Musk’s Twitter buyout may do more to cage the bird than to free it.
Written by Alisha M. "The bird is free," tweeted Elon Musk, a pithy celebratory response to his successful buyout of Twitter. Musk's main ambition for Twitter was to transform it into "an inclusive arena of free speech." However, it turns out that the self-described...
Let’s Strive to Make Our Digital Platforms Accessible for All
Written by Jalasa Sapkota After the post pandemic period, our lives have revolved around two different worlds: one physical world, next virtual world. Our lives have become way simpler and more complex at the same time while navigating the world through...
Quarterly Media Monitoring Report (July to September 2022)
Freedom of Expression The arrest of comedian Apoorwa Kshitiz Singh once again raised questions regarding freedom of speech; a right guaranteed by the Nepal Constitution. Singh was arbitrarily arrested on charges of attacking and defaming the Newa culture, practices...