Categorie: Research Essay
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China’s Social Credit System: How the Three Actors of the ‘Surveillance Triad’ Contribute to the Construction of a Quantified Self
Research Master Media StudiesJanuary 23, 2017 Introduction In the Fall of 2015, the announcement of the implementation of a Social Credit System in China created a buzz in Western newspapers and (online) magazines. Although the Chinese government already released an official issuance about this upcoming system in the Summer of 2014, it gained noticeable attention…
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Trump’s Social Media Rhetoric: a Digital Methods Research Into the Resonance of Messages From Donald Trump’s Twitter and Facebook Account
Research Master Media StudiesMarch 23, 2017 Introduction On Tuesday, November the 8th, the Republican nominee Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States of America. In the build up to the election a Trump victory was projected unlikely by most media forecasts, but in the end his victory over the Democratic nominee Hillary…
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The Fight for Focus: Discussing Phantom Vibrations as Cold Turkey Symptoms of Anxiety About Our Online Social Worlds
Research Master Media StudiesJune 2, 2016 Phantom vibrations: isolated result of learned bodily habits or part of a larger pattern? In recent popular literature, there has been quite some attention for what is called the Phantom Vibration Syndrome (PVS). As The Independent observes, nine out of ten suffer from phantom vibrations: when a user mistakenly…
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