Tag: Online Platforms & Internet
37 Articles
- Society & Culture
Gender Trolling: Digital Manosphere and Misogyny in China
Introduction Trolling is a form of targeted harassment deemed deviant, offensive, and obscene. In the digital environment, gender trolling disproportionately targets women and is…
May 5, 2025
- Science & Technology
Innovation and Artists’ Rights in the Age of Generative AI
Introduction In recent months, artists such as Billie Eilish and Pearl Jam have voiced concerns about generative AI in music, highlighting issues around creativity and artists’…
July 10, 2024
- Human Rights & Development
Xenophobia: A Pervasive Crisis in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Introduction When the Nigerian journalist Patrick Egwu first visited South Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, he noticed a pervasive atmosphere of resentment and hatred…
May 26, 2024
- Conflict & Security
TikTok: A Casualty of US-China Geopolitical and Economic Tensions?
In March 2023, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) reportedly recommended banning or divesting from TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is based…
May 19, 2023
- Business & Economics
E-Commerce, Digital Identity, and Inclusive Digital Economy in Southeast Asia
The growth of the digital economy in Southeast Asia has increased at an unprecedented rate in the past decade. A Google and Temasek report in 2018 forecasted that the size of the…
July 20, 2022
- Science & Technology
Masspersonal Social Engineering and the Emergence of Individualized Information Warfare
Russia’s use of cyber-enabled information operations to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election marked the return of great power competition and conflict after a…
May 17, 2022
- Science & Technology
Reporting on Technical Cybersecurity Breaches for Non-Technical Audiences
Just over a decade ago, cybersecurity journalists were charged with covering one of the most interesting, sophisticated, and difficult-to-explain security compromises: the breach…
February 1, 2022
- Society & Culture
Bitcoin as Legal Tender in El Salvador: The First Fifty Days
On June 5, in a pre-recorded video, the president of El Salvador announced at the BITCOIN 2021 conference in Miami that El Salvador would be the first country to adopt bitcoin as…
November 30, 2021
- Science & Technology
Can Lawmakers Save Democracy from Big Tech?
The Evolution of Social Media When social media began to explode just over a decade ago, the principal societal concern was how the collection and sharing of personal information…
September 7, 2021
- Conflict & Security
Deplatforming and Adaptation: Similarities Between Religious and Ideological Extremism
The Spectrum of Extremis On March 17th this year, Mike Burgess, the Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), announced in his Annual Threat…
May 24, 2021