Hello hello everyone, how are you all? I hope you are holding up or even already done with the semester. And even if you are not – keep calm, the holidays are close. Christmas ahoy! 🙂 Since the holidays are coming up & the semester is wrapping up, I thought I’ll write a short wee […]

Hi all! In the past three weeks, I followed Juli’s advice to try to contact people for a pilot interview. It was really difficult to discuss COVID without rapport or trust with people living in mainland China because of the tightened censorship. Fortunately, I found few student friends and a journalist, but I still haven’t […]

Good Friday afternoon to y’all. As mentioned in my last post I certainly need some time and inspiration and to jiggle my different research ideas a little bit around, modify them, see how they might align with potential PhD ideas I have (or have seen online). But anyway, I will give it a go – […]

This week I mainly focus on my Insights through Data’s final group project work. Firstly, we find a dataset related to vote rate. We try to find the correlation between GDP and vote rate. However, one this is that different countries will have different time to hold the election, which is difficult for us to […]

  Submission Receipts = Celebration The past few weeks have been mostly production —  converting the reading, listening, discussing, watching, struggling and thinking from first half of term into inventions, papers, presentations, code, feedback and blog posts. The ‘what’ of this was a decent challenge, but the more significant hurdles have been the ‘how’ of […]

Hi everyone, sorry for my slightly delayed blog post. Last week was pretty busy & my head was/is a bit frazzled. But hey, at least I have now done all my intensives & submitted a bunch of group work 🙂 And we are all on that very last leg of uni – a few more […]

I got some inspiration from an elective course, which called Narratives of Digital Capitalism. During its intensive day, our group designed a physical device to mimic how social media works. In the conclusion, we found that social media algorithms are the mechanisms by which immersive, “unique” media feeds are created, which then opens the doors […]

how I can just pick up and rent a hotel room for a night or two because my house doesn’t have water or sewer how I can afford to heat my home and turn up the thermostat without worrying about how I will pay my gas bill how I can take a sick day off […]

In the course Insights Through Data (ITD), we discussed the topic of data ethics. When conducting research and handling data, ethics is one of the most important areas to think about. In the group breakouts, we were asked to consider if something is legal, does that make it ethical?  Our group said no, as did […]

As I have mentioned, I want to combine my undergraduate major with inequality, so I have been looking for the relationship between data and inequality. As I was looking for information on it, I realised that older people left behind by the digital wave were also well worthy of our attention. Today’s societies in China […]