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Twitter: A Toxic Platform For Minority Groups

Imagine a scenario where everyone is able to share their thoughts, in short messages, to a big audience. Around this time, 15 years ago, the Internet community was granted the luxury to do so through […]

Techlash Raises Questions, Carries Risks THOMAS J. DONOHUE /https://www.uschamber.com/series/your-corner/techlash-raises-questions-carries-risks
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Q1: The social concerns lie behind the “Techlash” and solution addressed by government, civil organization and technology giants

What is “Techlash”? The word “Techlash” first appeared in 2018. It was a term created by the Economist to describe the growing hostility towards tech giants such as Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, as […]

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How the PRISM Program and Its Whistleblower reflect the Past, Present and Future of the Internet – A Film Review of Snowden (2016)

Author: Anqi (Angela) LI | Sid: 500008469 | Class: RE02 | Tutor: Yuan JIANG   8 years have past, since Edward Snowden blow the whistle on the government of the United States as well as […]

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Techlash: Free Lunch or Win-win?

“Techlash” by Fortune Conferences is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Techlash is a term used by economists to describe a phenomenon in today’s society. Specifically, it refers to the negative sentiment and hostility of the public towards the increasing […]

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WEIBO:Discover new things anytime, anywhere

Figure 1. “Sina Microblogging Notebook” by bfishadow is licensed under CC BY 2.0 With the development of technology, the global Internet penetration rate has reached 53%, equivalent to 3.82 billion people. The number of users of global social networking platforms is […]

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The fast-growing tiktok

Do a case study of a platform business. When did the business commence, what are its primary fields of operation, and has it been successful? How does it make money from its activities, and have […]

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Techlash: Is there a crisis of trust due to technology?

“Tech companies” by Huzaifa Abedeen, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons What is meant by the “techlash”? Techlash is a term coined by the Economist and popularized in 2018. Advanced information technology is generally […]

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Internet:The Everyday Sexism In Digital Life

In 2013, The Autcomplete Truth, an advertisement jointly created by Memac & Mather Dubai, revealed the prevalence of discrimination against women in Google search engine(Noble, 2020) .It shows that, if one searches for “Women should” in Google […]