The art of rumour in the digital age

August 20, 2012 09:55

The events of the past few days intimate a new uncertain future for our media modernity. We have entered a world where the old techniques of deploying crowd control, managing social unrest and communal disturbance are going to be tested unless we clearly understand the new stakes in our post-media lives, writes Ravi Sundaram in The Hindu.

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