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Online communities

Asian Open Source Communities

Asia hosts some of the world’s largest and fastest-growing open-source communities. From East Asia to South and Southeast Asia, developers,

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Social media

Behind TikTok: Zhang Yiming

Zhang Yiming is the engineer behind ByteDance and the architect of TikTok’s unprecedented rise. His journey from a low-profile Chinese

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Conspiracy theories

The Flat Earth revival

Few conspiracy theories are as visibly refuted as the claim that the Earth is flat. Centuries of astronomy, satellite imagery,

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Online relationships

The world of Internet intimacies

Intimacy has traditionally been associated with physical closeness, shared space, and long-term presence. Online, intimacy increasingly emerges without these conditions.

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