THURS 9AM CC ALEXA

Bullying, harassment, violent content, hate, porn and other problematic content circulates on digital platforms. Who should be responsible for stoping the spread of this content and how?

Introduction Information spreads quickly in the digital modern world. A growing amount of unethical content is being published on digital platforms as the audience of platform users grows. The public has grown more worried and […]

THURS 9AM CC ALEXA

Who’s Responsible for Problematic Content?

Bullying, harassment, violent content, hate, porn and other problematic content circulates on digital platforms. Who should be responsible for stopping the spread of this content and how?  The responsibility of the moderation of problematic content […]

Wed 10 RE (Sulagna)

Bullying, harassment, violent content, hate, porn and other problematic content circulates on digital platforms. Who should be responsible for stopping spread of this content and how?

The Internet is a free-speech platform. The culture of the internet used to be made of techno-meritocratic culture, hacker culture, virtual communitarian culture, and entrepreneurial culture (Castells, 2002). These cultures gather people together and let […]

CC04 Thurs 11am Jenni

To what extent has a lack of diversity influenced the development of the internet? How does this lack of diversity harm societies and individuals?

As the Internet being thrive, it sophisticatedly offers individuals new possibilities to express themselves in ways that reflect their cultural identities and personal values. This user-generated content, therefore, allows users’ voices to be better reflected […]

Wenjia's Thu 12PM

Who is responsible for the harm and psychological problems that people suffer after being exposed to maliciously distributed content on digital platforms, and how?

In the information age where the internet is developing rapidly, new focal points appear every day and then disappear quickly into the internet. It is easy for some hate speech to arise from the content […]

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FRIDAY 3PM RE ALEXA

Silicon Valley

The History and Key Components of Silicon Valley The history of Silicon Valley may be traced back to the founding of Shockley Semiconductor in 1956. However, the beginning of the modern Silicon Valley probably started […]

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Silicon Valley is known for both unicorns and black swans. What political, social and economic ideas shape the culture of Silicon Valley today?

Silicon Valley, synonymous with the knowledge economy, accounts for 1% of the U.S. population, creates 13% of U.S. patents, and has more than 50 Nobel Prize winners. Silicon Valley is the center of entrepreneurship and […]

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IRL Friday 1pm

Whose responsibility is it to stop bullying, harassment, violent content, hatred, pornography, and other problematic content from spreading on the digital platform and how to stop it?

What is violent content mean? While social media platforms provide users with new opportunities to interact and engage with a larger spectrum of individuals ( Boyd,2011; Varnelis,2008, cited by Gillespie, 2018), it is also clear […]