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Black Mirror: The National Anthem

“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 […]

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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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Snowden:a peace breaker or a hero?

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 […]

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Techlash

What is meant by “techlash”? Discuss the public concerns that lie behind the techlash. To what extent can these concerns be addressed by governments, by civil society organisations, and by the technology companies themselves?    […]

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Techlash

Meaning of Techlash Techlash means a strong negative reaction or backlash against the largest technology companies, or their employees or products. Some decades ago, big tech companies were seen as promoters of optimistic transformation. The internet had […]

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Techlash—Advance or Threat

What is Techlash? “Techlash” is the latest word to explode in the Internet age. It was first coined by The Economist as a synthetic term blend of Tech + Backlash to describe large technology companies such as […]

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A case study of WeChat’s platform business

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 […]

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Assignment 2

The Great Hack:Data Wars

SID: 490538203   |  Name: Zeyu Zhang(Joy)  | CLASS:05  |   TUTOR: Venessa Paech Introduction The Great Hack (2019) Netflix Documentary Review(Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=789Y7rqxmpI) The documentary The Great Hack was directed by Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim in 2019. […]

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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 […]