FILM 208 Research Paper Digital India India is one of the world’s fastest growing economies with the seventh largest landmass and housing the planet’s second largest population of 1.33 billion (2017) citizens. It has taken massive strides in the last few decades since its Independence in 1947 and more recently since the turn of the [...]
Creating and using a website was an extremely interesting and rewarding experience this semester. Firstly, I made very minimal changes to the website over the course of the semester. This is because I was pretty satisfied with the color theme and layout of my website from the start. I preferred to keep it black and [...]
Creative Project Video Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/615s44odl6hyxkf/My%20Movie%202.mp4?dl=0 Artist's Statement/ Explanation: My creative project is a video discussing India’s ambitious Digital India scheme- an effort to rapidly digitize all facets of the economy in the near future. It includes the initiation, work so far, opportunities, and challenges facing the economy in face of this upheaval. I produced this [...]
My fifth news response for the course is to an article in the New York Times titled, "What to Know About The Fight Between Hollywood's Writers and Agents". This particular article discusses the "unusual" labor fight between the Writers Guild of America and the big talent agencies of Hollywood with the W.G.A attempting to bring [...]
My fourth news response for the course is to an article in the New York Times titled, "Media Companies Take a Big Gamble on Apple". The article discusses Apple's recent efforts to partner with media companies and content creators in order to beef up their recent Apple News venture, and the pitfalls that the aforementioned [...]
Scholarly Sources Dua , Seema. “Digital India: Opportunities & Challenges.” International Journal of Science Technology and Management , vol. 6, no. 03, 3 Mar. 2017, pp. 61–67., http://www.dhurina.org/digita india.pdf. This scholarly article discusses the challenges facing India in their quest to increase and maximize opportunities that will come about as a result of digitizing the [...]
My third news response for the course is to an article in The New York Times titled, "Apple's Big Spending Plan to Challenge Netflix Takes Shape". The article discusses Apple's impending announcement of a streaming platform to rival old players like Amazon and Netflix, and what it means for the industry and Apple itself going [...]
My second news response for the course is to an article in the New York Times titled, "Pinterest Restricts Vaccine Search Results to Curb Spread of Misinformation". The article dwells into Pinterest's "unusual" decision of manipulating their search box so as to not display results upon typing "vaccine", "Vaccination" or "anti-vax". This step was taken [...]
Topic: ‘Digital India’ Digital India is a campaign launched by the Government to ensure the wide spread availability of state services through digital methods to citizens, especially in rural India where 912 million citizens currently reside and for the most part are still unable to optimally access the Internet which has been reminiscent of their [...]
For my news responses in FILM 208 I have chosen to follow the New York Times. It is one of the more reputable news organizations and has a plethora of technology and media content that is filtered in an effective manner in terms of the news and articles I am trying to familiarize myself with. [...]
