{"id":28738,"date":"2018-10-24T14:35:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28738"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:05:16","slug":"social-media-hub-idea-may-not-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/social-media-hub-idea-may-not-take-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media hub idea may not take off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/social-media-hub-idea-may-not-take-off\/article24203292.ece\">Social media hub idea may not take off<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Centre government proposed to set up a social media communication hub has witness many shortfall in its implementation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Public sector firm Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Ltd. is handling the project.<\/li>\n<li>The proposed of social media communication hub has faced reluctance from the bidder.<\/li>\n<li>The last date for tenders has been extended for the fourth time after the govt. didn\u2019t get enough bids.<\/li>\n<li>Salient feature of the Social media hub project:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The media persons would be employed on a contractual basis in each district to be the \u201ceyes and ear \u201cof the government.<\/li>\n<li>The hub will enable \u201clisten to email\u201d and assist the government in tailoring campaigns to promote \u201cpositive opinions and neutralize negative sentiments\u201d about government schemes.<\/li>\n<li>The hub proposes to monitor social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and even email) handles at the very local level in multiple languages to carry out \u201csentiment analysis\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Critic pointed out that:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The proposal to set up such a hub is an indirect measure to \u201csnoop\u201d on and influence voters.<\/li>\n<li>It is an attempt to track down the influence-making social media users and to categories the conversations on social media into positive, negative and neutral sections.<\/li>\n<li>It aimed to track real time way the social media receives on government\u2019s schemes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>Conclusion:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The government has to rethink on the entire project and make it Sustainable.<\/li>\n<li>The government should specifically understand how the information collected by the hub would be put to use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media hub idea may not take off News: The Centre government proposed to set up a social media communication hub has witness many shortfall in its implementation. Important Facts: Public sector firm Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Ltd. is handling the project. The proposed of social media communication hub has faced reluctance from the bidder.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/social-media-hub-idea-may-not-take-off\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social media hub idea may not take off<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704911166},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}