Social media channels alienate us from one another but also inform and entertain us. Are you nostalgic for the days you’d sit with your friends at a table and converse with them, getting their full attention? That time is gone. Yes, you can still congregate with friends and family members, but the quality of such …
“Looking back on the most viral news stories in 2021, we can definitely call this year a mixed bag. There was high interest in anything related to COVID-19, of course, as well as weather and crime stories. But there were also some surprising headlines that were wildly popular, and also stranger than fiction,” GLOBAL NEWS
Somali politics is both thorny and explosive. If you write something about anything of the country’s situation, you offend one group of people or another. Everybody is sensitive. And there are clan enclaves all over the place. Don’t step on my toes, they demand. Somali politics is explosive, but we can’t keep mute because we’ve …
Libraries communicate information and cater to diverse patrons. Libraries’ users are called patrons, not customers. In fact, communication is to create meaning and understanding between people, and the libraries play a pivotal role in simplifying that meaning and imparting it in a plain way. Ever since the first library was erected in Mesopotamia (Iraq, where …
The world’s peoples are digitally divided and poverty comes in different forms, as people do not gain access to communication technology and information on an equal footing. Some are digitally advantaged, while others are disadvantaged; but what is digital divide? Digital divide is the gap between those who can get access to communication technologies and …
