I spent a lot of time in the text remix class this week, as I know very little about programming due to little exposure to it in my undergraduate degree. This class required us to learn programming and then use it to create our own poems. I think it was a very interesting but also […]

I want to blog more about my status in this week’s blog. As someone who has just completed my undergraduate education, and as someone who is going abroad for the first time, I feel a little overwhelmed by everything around me when I actually step into a foreign country, and I am thankful that I […]

The Influence of my Coursework In my last post, I talked about (virtually) attending a planetarium show during my Coloniality of Data intensive and having a primarily auditory experience. This got me thinking about which sense(s) we rely on, given our ability, access, etc., which guided my contribution to an Interdisciplinary Futures discussion board the […]

Somewhere amidst finishing my assessment for Exclusion and Inequality, starting the pre-intensive period for Migration and Forced Displacement, and juggling an onslaught of group projects, I began questioning the feasibility of my intended final project (I guess that’s why we’re encouraged to attempt to incorporate our final project idea into this essay? To give ourselves […]

The most significant shift in my understanding of society has come from the Coloniality course. The readings and discussions frequently come back to the concepts of and processes of social categorization and othering, and the reciprocal reinforcement between them.   During the intensive of this class, there was a little field trip over to the […]

My mother started referring to me as middle-aged a few years ago. This was technically correct since the life expectancy for females is holding at around mid 80s in my country but it still hurt a little bit. I have always considered myself to be young at heart and being reminded of my chronological age […]

I had 5 intensive days this week, a really busy week, I spent my evenings compiling the list of literature I needed to study for the essay, added many real life examples of price discrimination and related policies over the weekend, and tried to export my own critical thoughts.Here is a part of the list […]

I believe that market monopoly in the data environment is the result of price discrimination, and I want to use Internet-based price discrimination as the topic of my essay.Here is my conceptual learning on price discrimination What is price discrimination Price discrimination is essentially a difference in price, usually when a provider of goods or […]

Week1 Two intensive days gave me a new awareness and understanding of inequality, two group presentations taught me how to quickly organize my thoughts and output a framework, and I also learned from the research and novel ideas of other project members in the class.   Week3 For dressing week I have been reading the […]

Joining up the dots It’s been a tough gig managing overlapping intensive periods, with multiple assignments, group work and readings. However, what I have enjoyed about the overwhelming and simultaneous influx of information, is that I have started to notice similarities between the courses I am taking, and have begun thinking about how these may […]