Assignment 2

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 […]

Assignment 2

Citizenfour: The erosion of privacy, liberty, and truth.

CITIZENFOUR – Offical Trailer source: http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHaWhUjV96M Science-fiction provides us with entertainment and more importantly commentary on the future. The Matrix, Minority Report, 1984, Brave New World, provides insight into a dystopian window of the future, […]

Group 9

The Structural Inequalities of the Internet.

The internet has shaped and continues to construct communities riddled with structural inequalities to a large extent. The internet was not built to deliberately exclude entire categories of people, however through its inherent infrastructure (whether […]

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Content moderation in digital platforms

Example    In 2016, a photo of a Napalm girl posted by a Midland photographer was deleted from Facebook because the girl in the photo was naked and had a painful expression, which violated the […]