{"id":3624,"date":"2014-05-06T14:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T18:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2014-05-06T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T18:34:26","slug":"hasit-shah-on-cheap-smartphones-digital-news-the-worlds-biggest-election-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2014\/05\/06\/hasit-shah-on-cheap-smartphones-digital-news-the-worlds-biggest-election-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasit Shah on Cheap Smartphones, Digital News, &amp; the World\u2019s Biggest Election [AUDIO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a sixth of Indians have access to the Internet, leaving a billion people behind. But smartphones are getting cheaper and mobile internet connections are becoming more easily available. The new Internet users will demand content that won\u2019t be in English, that doesn\u2019t necessarily demand high levels of literacy and works well on basic devices with erratic connections.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk Hasit Shah &#8212; Nieman-Berkman Fellow at Harvard and Senior Producer for BBC News in London &#8212; discusses India&#8217;s first proper &#8220;digital&#8221; election, and how Internet-based campaigning is making this one to watch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/Internet%20and%20Society%202007\/tiny_thumbs\/45px-Sound-icon.svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"45\" height=\"34\" \/> Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2014-05-06_hasit\/2014-05-06_hasit.mp3\">MP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;or download the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2014-05-06_hasit\/2014-05-06_hasit.ogg\">OGG audio format!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More info on this event <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheon\/2014\/05\/shah\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a sixth of Indians have access to the Internet, leaving a billion people behind. But smartphones are getting cheaper and mobile internet connections are becoming more easily available. The new Internet users will demand content that won\u2019t be in English, that doesn\u2019t necessarily demand high levels of literacy and works well on basic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3625,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}