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Internet:The Everyday Sexism In Digital Life

In 2013, The Autcomplete Truth, an advertisement jointly created by Memac & Mather Dubai, revealed the prevalence of discrimination against women in Google search engine(Noble, 2020) .It shows that, if one searches for “Women should” in Google […]

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Business model of Digital Platform – Taking Taobao as a case study

(Figure 1.0 ‘Taobao-app-features-that-drive-sales-Sampi’ From Fiona Martin, https://2021.arin2610.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Taobao-app-features-that-drive-sales-Sampi.jpg. Licensed CC BY 2.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0.) Alibaba Group Holding: “To make it easy to do business anywhere” Summary: Taobao, directly translated as ‘search for pleasure’ in Chinese, is a […]

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The Internet has exacerbated structural inequality

  “We love Internet” by Kalexanderson is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Internet preserves the structural inequalities of the past With the development of the Internet, it is gradually improved. However, Internet at present is still affected by the […]

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Content moderation: Problems and government control

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Social-media-1.webp Content moderation is part of the management of digital platforms for user-generated content. Due to the flexible nature of the internet, control over posts users generated cannot be monitored or guaranteed. Social media emerged […]

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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 […]

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The Social Media Mogul – FACEBOOK

(Photo from Wikimedia Commons is licensed under CC BY 2.0.) Mark Zuckerberg was able to foresee the potential of the need of an online social media platform in the future and this has made him […]

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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 […]