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The Great Hack: are we the slaves of internet?

SID: 500519747  |  Name: jiaxuan (Naomi) Liu  | CLASS: 11  |   TUTOR: Yuan Jiang “Who has seen an advertisement that has convinced you that your microphone is listening to your conversation?” (Noujaim, J & Amer, K, […]

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Napster: An Influential Product of The Era

Establishment of Napster Napster was founded in 1999, setting the stage for a peer-to-peer (P2P) platform for file sharing, with an emphasis on digital and audio content, especially audio in the form of MP3 (Andersen, […]

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Internet fundamentalism and content moderation

In 2017, Mark Zuckerberg said in his speech that Facebook will move beyond connecting family and friends to building “social infrastructure” critical to bringing people together in a “global community” for “supporting us, keeping us safe, for informing us, […]

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Black Mirror: The Dark Side of The Medium

<Black Mirror>, a British channel 4 miniseries that began to air in December 2011, is once again a global hit after <Sherlock>. Its exquisite narrative structure, dense satire and humor, and sharp criticism of reality […]

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The most popular social messaging app in China: WeChat

Introduction WeChat is a social networking app controlled by Tencent. Much like Facebook, it allows people to communicate and share their lives on the platform. With the continuous development of WeChat, it has a large […]

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Pioneer in the “sharing economy”: UBER

    Guanlun Li  490054758 Introduce With the development of the Internet economy, more and more platforms choose to cater to the so-called “lazy economy”. Taxis are replaced by various taxi-hailing software. The car used […]