Internet provides greater access in current digital age, therefore people tend to express their opinions online especially on all kinds of social media platforms. However, this also causes a problematic phenomenon that social media are rife with various hate speech regarding gender, sexual orientation, age, race and so on, which has serious negative influence in…
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How does the use of social media for collective action influence the development of digital societies?
Collective action refers to organizing a group of people with a common goal to take an action together. Today, social media has been regarded as a useful platform and tool for achieving collective actions such as protest and dissidents. The use of social media facilitates the progress of collective actions, at the same time makes…
How does copyright online and/or Creative Commons influences the development of digital societies?
How does copyright online and/or Creative Commons influences the development of digital societies? In digital era, all kinds of intellectual properties such as music, videos and artworks can be widely spread by various medium on the Internet. People have access to a wide range of resources and may ignore the importance of original work. Therefore,…
How does state transparency in the digital era (Wikileaks and/or Open Data) influences the development of digital societies?
How does state transparency in the digital era (Wikileaks and/or Open Data) influences the development of digital societies? State transparency refers to the government share information with citizens, which realizes more openness and accountability. State transparency has been enhanced as the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) legislation went into effect. Citizens have the right to…
How does data-driven marketing and political campaigns influence the development of digital societies?
Data-driven marketing refers to the efficient strategy of analyzing customer information provided online in order to create relevant information such as advertisement to targeted consumers. According to research, in the last decade, social media namely facebook, Instagram and twitter have become a main platform for this kind of marketing. Normally on social media, the information…
How does online privacy and surveillance influence the development of digital societies?
People nowadays are more likely to be internet-reliant as internet provides people a main platform to source, share and discuss news and current affairs. Meanwhile, online privacy and surveillance have exerted increasing importance of facilitating the development of digital societies. Online privacy and surveillance refers to “controlling access to ones personal affairs as well as…
How does digital divide influence the development of digital societies?
How does digital divide influence the development of digital societies? Digital divide refers to ‘the uneven distribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in society.’(Eva Johanna Schweitzer, 2015). It can be regarded as the technology gap between rich and poor. In general, digital divide contains differences in accessibility of internet and information literacy. Even as…
How does misinformation and disinformation influence the development of digital societies?
Misinformation and disinformation have both positive and negative effects on digital societies. According to London (2012), almost every young person in UK looks at Facebook 20 times a day. The pervasiveness of digital world also arouses the issue of fake news online, which can be divided into misinformation and disinformation. Misinformation is regarded as…
Penguins die in ‘catastrophic’ Antarctic breeding season
It has been regarded as ‘catastrophic’ by experts that only 2 Adelie penguin in east Antarctic habitat survived from starvation during a breeding season. It is the second bad season in five years after no chicks survived in 2015. The reason of such phenomenon lies in the extreme high amounts of ice late in the season,…
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