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Hello, world.

Hello, I’m Vivian Miao! Welcome to my blog! I’m a curious soul with a deep love for…

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Posted in 4. ‘Algorithmic Biases’ Or ‘The male gaze’

Hollywood and the Male Gaze

Don’t you remember Hitchcock’s classic thriller “Rear Window”? Jeffries, an injured photographer, is bored with peering into…

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Posted in 3. ‘Manufacturing Consent’ Or ‘Ideas of encoding and decoding’

Encoding&Decoding: STARBUCKS THIRD PLACE

You get more than the finest coffee when you visit Starbucks. You get great people, first-rate music,…

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Posted in 2. ‘Medium theory’ Or ‘Construction of Identity in a digital world’

The Mediated Construction of Reality: Insights from Black Mirror

In Black Mirror, social media and digital rating systems are essential in shaping characters’ identities, especially in…

3 Comments on Elon Musk’s Starship: Opinion Leaders and the Two-Step Flow of Space Innovation
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Elon Musk’s Starship: Opinion Leaders and the Two-Step Flow of Space Innovation

The two-step flow theory refers to the process by which information spreads in two steps: first through…