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Snowden:a peace breaker or a hero?

Snowden is a biographical film released in 2016 about Edward Snowden, who joined the CIA after being drafted into the army in 2004 and then sent to war in Iraq, where he was unfortunately injured […]

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Techlash

What is meant by “techlash”? Discuss the public concerns that lie behind the techlash. To what extent can these concerns be addressed by governments, by civil society organisations, and by the technology companies themselves?    […]

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Techlash

Meaning of Techlash Techlash means a strong negative reaction or backlash against the largest technology companies, or their employees or products. Some decades ago, big tech companies were seen as promoters of optimistic transformation. The internet had […]

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Techlash—Advance or Threat

What is Techlash? “Techlash” is the latest word to explode in the Internet age. It was first coined by The Economist as a synthetic term blend of Tech + Backlash to describe large technology companies such as […]

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TikTok:Record the good life.

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”—— Andy Warhol. TikTok has unquestionably emerged as one of the biggest social media platforms around the world. Within the whole year of 2020, TikTok was […]

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A case study of WeChat’s platform business

Over the past few decades, the world has witnessed the rapid development of the internet’s platformisation. As a result of the proliferation and overlap of different platforms and operations, ‘platform business’ rises in response to […]

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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 […]