Social media was immersed in a strong global “storm” in October, 2017. Alyssa Milano, an American actress, who firstly appealed for spreading the hashtag of “MeToo" on Twitter, led to... More
The continuous growth in the amount of Facebook users may suggest one thing: people love to build online social networks and tend to make their network sizes as big as... More
With the quick development of mobile devices and social media platforms, due to convenience and generalizability, people began to pay attention to keep or establish social relationships through the Internet. More
It is interesting to start with the idea that Denny put forward in his article, Radio Builds Democracy, through which he talked about how radio bridged people to conduct public... More
Robin Dunbar argues that our ‘social brain’ is only capable of having networks of about 150 people (Rainie & Wellman, 2014). Some would argue this number is too small, and... More
To understand the changes to production and especially cultural production regarding content creation, we have first to understand the changes in technology that may have impacted the structures the most. More
Recent years have seen a return of political economic approaches to analyzing manifold facets of digital media (see, e.g., Gehl, 2014; Rigi & Prey, 2015; Obar & Oeldorf-Hirsch, 2018). This... More
You don’t have to look farther than the success of show’s like Black Mirror or Stranger Things to see how, currently, content creation matters to cultural production. While many of... More
Back to 1901, L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, came up with the idea of “Character Marker” consisting of a pair of spectacles to mark people’s... More
Telephone shaped people’s communication systems during wars and their everyday lives. Five decades later, another influential medium was born. As a modern counterpart to the telephone, Facebook changed the way... More