My thesis is on Gender Inequality on social media, and of the five classes I had last semester, I think the two classes that inspired me the most were Exclusion and Inclusion and Narratives in digital capitalism.

This semester I have seven classes and I am looking forward to learning something from all seven of them. For example,  in the Representing Data course, the group project was on Hierarchical Word Clouds of News Topic Clusters, which required me to extract some common topic words from thousands of news stories and present them in data visualization. I think this skill can be transferred to my thesis, such as extracting comments and replies from specific social media platforms to find their commonalities. Ethical Data Futures will help me understand the ethics and principles when extracting data, with a greater focus on human privacy, and will help me focus more on the privacy of the data when I am trying to look for it in my thesis. Inclusive Society, an intensive course, has come to an end and I feel that I have come away from it with a new understanding of an inclusive society, but also with the question of what can be done to alleviate gender inequality and promote gender inclusion, and is this possible?

I am still searching for answers.