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Techlash: revealing the negatives associated with technology development “Techlash” by Fortune Conferences is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 While digital development in the recent decades transforms the lifestyle of the new generation, the appearance of […]

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Black Mirror: A vision into the future?

The dystopian television show, ‘Black Mirror’, by Charlie Brooker represents an austere vision of the future where society has diminished into a despotic, technocratic state. Although it is both bleak and pessimistic, serving to warn […]

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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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How has the development of the Internet been affected by structural inequality and increased the degree of this inequality?

The Internet has developed for more than 30 years since the 1990s. As Turner (2021) said in the interview, some early structural prejudices still continue to affect today’s Internet culture. At the same time, there […]

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The burst of techlash

Under the Web 2.0 landscape, the alleged open internet is embroiled in a disputable paradigm where content is increasingly obtained from proprietary media platforms that are identified as “Big Tech”, constituted by Facebook, Apple, Amazon, […]

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Techlash-using Facebook as an example

“dinero facebook” by clasesdeperiodismo is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Introduction Techlash is a portmanteau word that combines the words technology and backlash. The term comes from the title of a November 2013 article in The Economist magazine, “The […]