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Discussing the development of new media produced social problems and countermeasures with techlash

The “techlash” phenomenon refers to a growing animus toward large technology companies (a.k.a., “Big Tech”) and to a more generalized opposition to modern technology itself, particularly innovations driven by information technology.(Robert D. Atkinson, 2021) The […]

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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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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 […]

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Lies behind ‘techlash’ and How to solve

“How to tame the tech titans”, by David Parkins for The Economist.com, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Annie Sun. Group 9.  Introduction  What is ‘techlash’? The Internet and Internet companies […]

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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 […]