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TikTok: Successful products under Web 2.0

The emergence of Web 2.0 means that people have officially entered a “new media era.” TikTok has successfully emerged from the short-form video platform with a series of precise and targeted strategies that quickly took […]

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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 […]

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Business model of Digital Platform – Taking Taobao as a case study

(Figure 1.0 ‘Taobao-app-features-that-drive-sales-Sampi’ From Fiona Martin, https://2021.arin2610.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Taobao-app-features-that-drive-sales-Sampi.jpg. Licensed CC BY 2.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0.) Alibaba Group Holding: “To make it easy to do business anywhere” Summary: Taobao, directly translated as ‘search for pleasure’ in Chinese, is a […]

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Content moderation: Problems and government control

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Social-media-1.webp Content moderation is part of the management of digital platforms for user-generated content. Due to the flexible nature of the internet, control over posts users generated cannot be monitored or guaranteed. Social media emerged […]

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A case study of Weibo

“Weibo.com Logo” by bfishadow is licensed under CC BY 2.0 What is Weibo? Weibo (full name Sina Weibo) is a large broadcast social media and networking platform that shares brief real-time information through relationship-building information sharing, dissemination, and access […]

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Techlash: The Phenomenon of Public Concerns

What is Techlash? Techlash is a term first coined in early 2018 by the British weekly newspaper The Economist to describe the phenomenon of public and government dissatisfaction with the growing power and influence of […]

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Weibo: Public Opinion Leaders

Figure 1: “Weibo.com Logo” by bfishadow is licensed under CC BY 2.0 When the Internet was not very developed, people could only find out what was happening in the world by listening to the radio, watching newspapers, or TV. […]

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“Techlash – Public Concern & Addressed”

  “Techlash”, by Ron Mader, licensed under CC-BY-SA-2.0 What is Techlash “Big Tech companies including apple, amazon, microsoft, google, and facebook” by Huzaifa Aberdeen, licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0 The “techlash” phenomenon refers to people’s growing hostility towards […]