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Bilibili: the Chinese Youtube is on its way

Chinese platformization is different to the western style in various ways such as its close engagement with the government and strong infrastructure (de Kloet, 2019). One significant example that has manifested other possibilities is Bilibili. […]

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CitizenFour: Privacy on the Interent is a Myth

Directed by Laura Poitras, CitizenFour exposes the massive surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA). After receiving anonymous and encrypted e-mails about illegal surveillance operations by the NSA, Poitras, alongside reporters Ewen MacAskill and Glenn Greenwald, decided […]

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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: 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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Techlash and Big Tech Market Power

  What is Techlash? The term techlash has constantly been used over the last few years, referring to the “…growing animus toward large technology companies (a.k.a., “Big Tech”) and to a more generalized opposition to […]

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Kuaishou: A Story

Posited as the domestic competitor to TikTok, albeit with less international traction, Kuaishou (referred to as Kwai internationally), “an algorithm-based video-sharing platform” (Lin & de Kloet, 2019, p. 1), encapsulates the early, utopic imaginaries of […]