social media

Brown Pundits on Instagram!

Announces that Brown Pundits now has an Instagram account, mainly to promote the podcast, notes the strong desi presence on the platform, and invites suggestions for the bio tag line.

Vishal4 February 20192 comments
Why I love being Paki-

The author enjoys ‘Twitterstan’ for its glamorous Pakistani politicians, asks why the PPP and PML-N do not form a coalition against Imran Khan and the army, and says his anger…

X.T.M19 November 201830 comments
Fascists on Hindu Twitter

A one-line reaction that Hindu Twitter is becoming disturbing, quoting a tweet that alleges a woman who converted to marry a Muslim man was killed by her husband and father-in-law.

X.T.M4 October 201813 comments
Twitter Thoughts

Back after a break, X.T.M reflects on why social media killed the blogosphere, and shares Twitter threads on script as a marker of civilisation and on the ‘Neo-Mughals’, the roughly…

X.T.M8 July 20180 comments
Book Review: The Sensational Life & Death of Qandeel Baloch

The reviewer calls Sanam Meher’s book on the murdered social-media personality Qandeel Baloch a poignant portrait that also follows others, such as a digital rights activist and the investigating officer,…

AbdulMajeed Abid6 June 20181 comment
Pressure on Social Media in Pakistan

Omar Ali cites a BBC report on military-linked contractors monitoring perceived dissenters, and an email from a friend removed from an elite WhatsApp group after criticising army policy over Nawaz…

Omar Ali16 May 201816 comments
Transnational political campaigns, hacking the elections,organizing riots

The author argues that cheap social media tools let outsiders and insiders organise protests, campaigns and even riots, that big data can test political slogans daily, and that Russian-meddling claims…

Bharata Bharatavanshi20 April 201822 comments
Harmless Secular Activists “Disappeared” in Pakistan

The author asks why several secular bloggers and rights activists disappeared across Pakistan in one week, noting that the pattern suggests the intelligence agencies, and that English-language, social-media activists in…

Brown Pundits Archive5 February 20170 comments
A Gay Kiss in Madrid and a troll in Silicon Valley

Citing Noam Chomsky, the author argues that the internet’s illusion of freedom hides narrowly bounded debate, and that galloping inequality vindicates Marx on returns to capital, as capitalism, which he…

Brown Pundits Archive10 December 20140 comments
Every tweet tells a (Arab) story

Citing a study of Arab Twitter users, the author notes that Arabs on both sides of the Egyptian coup disliked the United States, that Iran is hated more than Israel,…

Brown Pundits Archive4 September 20140 comments