‘Global Techlash’, a term coined by the Economist “against the once-feted corporate titans of Silicon Valley” (Flew, 2018, p26), is the growing political backlash associated with the rise of digital technologies; in particular the way […]
The macro wave brought by Techlash TUT05 Xiai Liu social media by Sean MacEntee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. It is impossible for people today to experience life without the […]
With the development of the internet and the appearance of the social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok where they encourage users to contribute the content for the public not just by assessing […]
The internet and social media have become detrimental parts of everyday life. Jeff Orlowki’s 2020 Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, highlights the positive and negative results of this through visual imagery and discussions as […]
In the early days of ICT4D(Information and Communications Technologies for Development), people trusted that ICTs(Information and communication technologies) would naturally help reduce the growth of structural inequalities. They thought that since ICTs give access to […]
Platform business are becoming more popular with the rise of social media and the inclusive nature of the business style. A platform business can be defined by Moazed “a business model that creates value by […]
Numerous transgender historians, namely Eve Shapiro of “Gender Circuits” (2010) notoriety, have discussed the global impact of the internet on transgender culture. The apparent irony that a technology created primarily by cisgendered, male scientists would […]
Content moderation is a necessary governance mechanism to make digital platforms safer and more inclusive, but recent developments have seen social media companies employ it as a discretionary device to exert soft power and dictate […]
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 […]
The moderation of the content of Internet communications is the most contentious issue arising from the regulation of the Internet in countries around the world. These controversies focus mainly on the conflict between freedom of […]
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