Douyin -or TikTok, as it is known in the West- is a Chinese social network that was launched initially in 2016 as musical.ly, and it is owned, as of 2017, by the Chinese media company ByteDance. As most of us probably already know, this app allows users to post short videos with music clips or… Continue reading DOUYIN: The new Chinese propaganda machine
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The bolder the art style, the bolder the politics
With its distinctive graphic style, Soviet Poster Art had a development arc that simultaneously masked and mirrored that of the once revolutionary Soviet ideology, tailing on its turn towards authoritarianism, and its gradual dismantling.