New Delhi: In response to escalating global concerns about about the posts shared online in social media, several Indian universities are taking enhanced steps for ensuring that social media guidelines are being followed by the students as well as the faculty members.
There has been an increasing scrutinisation of posts that are being published online. Multiple universities across the country are ensuring and implementing that the students and the staff follow a formal set of guidelines while posting any form of content on social media. as reported by The Telegraph.
Universities on the radar
Universities such as the Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Lovely Professional University (LPU) and Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) have implemented policies for the judicious use of social media.
MAHE’s policy advices students to avoid sharing confidential or non-public information and refrain from posting content that could be deemed obscene, illegal, defamatory or hostile towards any entity. the institution also aims to incentivise that social media communications are subject to increasing legal frameworks and that employers are engaging in a policy of checking digital footprints.
At NIFT, students are required to sign an undertaking on social media after admission. These measure is implemented in the wake of the concern that social media posts can be widely circulated and might tend to impact future employment opportunities.
CUTN stated that students would be solely responsible for they content that they are posting on social media while several other universities such as TNOU clarified that any person who is affiliated to the university has to adhere to strict university guidelines for social media.
Enhanced digital monitoring
Earlier, universities such as the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Sharda University to name a few had social media guidelines in use so as to ensure the responsible conduct of the entities affiliated with the educational institutions. Other institutions, previously, have also taken various informal measures for the regulation of content that is being posted online.
These institutional measures are reflecting a trend of heightened digital vigilance. In a report by The Telegraph, an Indian IT professional based in Atlanta noted that US border control officials have begun requesting access to travelers devices and social media accounts to assess their views on the US government.