With the advent of Information Technology revolution, modern day journalism and mass media have arrived at the centre stage of global geo-political events and become the driving force of democratic values. Read more…

Some Cairo activist has succinctly quoted “We use Facebook to schedule the protests, Twitter to coordinate, and YouTube to tell the world.” 

With the use of web-based and mobile technologies, Social media networking sites (facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Friendster, Bebo, Orkut…and many others) have turned the communication into interactive dialogue. Read more…

Remember the recent Egypt crisis? Egypt was on the world’s stage. The political and civil unrest in Egypt peaked on January 25th when Twitter was blocked. That day the hashtags like “Egypt” and “Mubarak” were trending all over the world. Twitter has played a key role in getting the citizens’ voices heard in Egypt. The recent collaboration of twitter with search giant Google, made it possible for Egyptians to tweet through voicemail. Read more…

As my fellow blogger, Kuldeep writes in his blog, these are difficult times for News Media industry. With falling subscriptions, reducing advertising revenues and users unwilling to pay for online content, News media is in dire straits today. Read more…