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The Great Hack: The almost transparent internet generation

(2021). [Image]. Retrieved 14 October 2021, from https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/this-new-course-is-teaching-kids-to-be-cyber-security-experts-4027836. “Data is the most valuable resource.” After the 2016 U.S. election, Cambridge Analytica became famous for improperly obtaining data from 50 million Facebook users. After the scandal […]

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Content Moderation of Digital Platforms

Figure 1. Social Media by Wikimedia Commons are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Introduction The increasing amount of content on the Internet not only represents more traffic, but also signals a huge content risk hiding […]

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Techlash and Public Concerns Lying Behind Techlash

Techlash and Public Concerns Lying Behind Techlash   Photo Source In his book Tools and Weapons (2021), Brad Smith, the American attorney and current president of Microsoft asked whether technology is indeed a tool or a […]

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Yishan Zhao Group4/Assignment 2:The Case Study of Airbnb

Airbnb, a platform business With the evolving digital technologies and growing environmental awareness, platform businesses have been rising globally. Airbnb as a successful platform business operates in over 220 countries and regions (Iproperty management, 2021). […]

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Techlash and Mistrust

It does not take a lot of thinking to make a reasonable guess what possibly could the word ‘techlash’ mean. Certainly, it is similar to a backlash, but in the tech world, and for the […]

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Structural Inequalities Within the Internet

The existence of unequal rights and opportunities amongst individuals creates a divide in status, which constructs the notion of structural inequalities (United Nations ESCWA, 2021). These disparities occurring in fields of education, healthcare, wealth and […]

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WeChat brings revolutionary changes to the internet

 Within the second quarter of 2021, the number of monthly active online users on the WeChat platform has reached 1.24 billion (Statista, 2021). WeChat platform is pervasive in terms of the user base, functionalities, and […]