Media, social networks and internal security
Whole chapter · 7–11 focused hours
Media, social networks and internal security
General-studies learner familiar with basic social media use and the shared constitutional-rights, source-verification and counter-terrorism foundations.
Includes
- Assigned sections and concise recall notes
- Available mapped practice and analysis of mistakes
- One initial closed-book review
Separate time needed
- Later revision and full mock tests
- Continuing policy, platform and current-affairs updates
- Foundational privacy, source-verification and terrorist-recruitment study budgeted in their existing chapters
- Specialist media-law or journalism training
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- Social platforms and personal data
- Information disorder and public harm
- Responsible communication during security crises
- Content restrictions and constitutional safeguards
Whole chapter reading
- Computer Science, Lesson 6: Communications on Internet ↗
Section 6.5.6, printed page 91 / PDF page 14: network, profile and connection descriptions only. Exclude old platform statistics, age rules, UI and chronology.
- The right to privacy in the digital age: A/HRC/39/29 ↗
Paragraphs 12–16, PDF pages 4–5: collection, combination and profiling risks. Reuse the existing privacy foundation; this is an application, not a second privacy course.
- Journalism, Fake News and Disinformation: Handbook for Journalism Education and Training ↗
Module 2 Outline, printed/PDF page 44: misinformation, disinformation and mal-information, with the public-interest qualification. These are analytical categories, not legal offences.
- Terrorism and the Media: A Handbook for Journalists ↗
Section 2.6 opening (printed 34–35 / PDF 33–34); 2.7–2.8 (printed 37–39 / PDF 36–38); 3.1 opening (printed 45 / PDF 44); 3.8–3.9 (printed 67–68 / PDF 66–67); 4.3 first two pages (printed 74–75 / PDF 73–74). Study framing, scrutiny, uncertainty, rumour response and live-disclosure risks. Historical examples illustrate mechanisms; they do not establish current Indian broadcasting rules.
- Information Technology Act, 2000: selected statutory framework ↗
Sections 69A(1)–(2) and 79, PDF pages 27 and 30, read with the assigned Shreya Singhal judgment. These selected foundations exclude later intermediary rules and current litigation.
- Supreme Court of India, Shreya Singhal vs U.O.I on 24 March, 2015 ↗
Paragraphs 13–15 and 116–119: discussion/advocacy/incitement, Article 19(2), conditional intermediary immunity and invalidation of section 66A. The judgment’s 2011 rules are historical, not current procedure.