Madri Kakoti
Madri Kakoti, aka Dr Medussa, on social media platforms, is an Assistant professor in University of Lucknow. She was a keynote speaker at Mediatrone, a Media Symposium conducted by the Centre for Media Studies, Jyoti Nivas College, Autonomous. In her speech, she talks about Oceania, a country without explicitly mentioning any country in the world. In her speech, she talks about the political structure of this country, riddled with corruption, government atrocities, surveillance, data security and how modern times as extensified these problems and that freedom is not really freedom but something that is constricted with laws and rules. These laws and rules act as a weapon for these institutions to control and restrict us on what we see, hear and what knowledge we gain. The modern era of media provides an extra layer of control to these agencies by controlling our data and controlling what we see through censorship that is not explicitly clear, like the 90s, but in the forms tech pr...
