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[ 2020-10-31 ] The Delicate Balance of Free Speech and Hate Speech Assignment 2
[ 2021-10-29 ] Social media content moderation. Is it for the better? Assignment 2
[ 2021-10-28 ] Techlash? The world’s rising concern with silicon valley giants arin2610
[ 2021-10-28 ] Netflix’s ‘The Social Dilemma’ Review: Decoding the addictive design of social media Assignment 2
[ 2021-10-27 ] Blame the Mods? free speech, content moderation, and algorithmic audiencing Assignment 2
[ 2021-10-27 ] Internet Transformation Assignment 2

Techlash – Issues and future challenges in the age of the digital world

2021-10-18 Samantha (Mingru) Cai Comments Off

History of the Internet In the early 1990s, with the successful completion of the World Wide Web protocol, the commercialisation of the Internet began to accelerate, with various new business models and Internet services being […]

YouTube: Case study of the most popular video platform in the world

2021-10-18 Finn Dang Comments Off

YouTube is one of the biggest video streaming platforms on the Internet and the second most visited website on the Internet just after Google.com, and is owned by the former company. The site is an […]

Barlow’s Broken Dream: The Reality & Future of Content Moderation

2021-10-17 Cyrilla Lowas Comments Off

“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us […]

Creative communications via Internet, Multiple ways of gender stereotypes

2021-10-17 通 Comments Off

Image by sickboyy is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The development of the Internet is changing the patterns of social interaction and reigniting debates about sexuality and identity, with the United Nations (n.d.) defining structural inequality as the unequal […]

Black Mirror: The National Anthem

2021-10-17 Jenny Comments Off

“When the screen is off, it looks like a black mirror, and people see themselves in the reflection” (Brooker, 2014). As a TV series in which each episode tells a different story about the relationship […]

Snowden：a peace breaker or a hero?

2021-10-17 Akim Comments Off

Snowden is a biographical film released in 2016 about Edward Snowden, who joined the CIA after being drafted into the army in 2004 and then sent to war in Iraq, where he was unfortunately injured […]

A case study of WeChat’s platform business

2021-10-17 XIAOJING Comments Off

Over the past few decades, the world has witnessed the rapid development of the internet’s platformisation. As a result of the proliferation and overlap of different platforms and operations, ‘platform business’ rises in response to […]

WeChat has an estimated 2 million mini programs covering a variety of services, which now include reporting on epidemics. © 2020 by Masha Borak is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

WeChat: One of the greatest internet products of the 21st century

2021-10-17 琼玉 Comments Off

“Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat, and Its Power Is Sweeping.” © 2020 by Paul Mozur is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Introduction This essay is a case study focusing on the development of the WeChat business. First of […]

Platform co-governance: addressing the public concerns behind “techlash”

2021-10-17 Linghui PAN Comments Off

Context for a debate about “techlash” Since the early 2000s, social and economic interactions have increasingly developed through a collection of online platforms, which play a role in organizing societies in a global order. The […]