In Ethical Data Futures course, I focused on the case about Open AI’s use of Kenyan labor to reduce ChatGPT’s toxicity, especially its ethical issues. In group discussions, peers used “ethical evaluation” to evaluate practices and “ethical thinking” to compare values. This practice is essential for social advancement but raises ethical questions about outsourced workers’ rights. I […]

In the course Ethical Data Futures, I studied some cased which refers to ethical implications. One of these impressed me the most. I’d like to share my ideas here. The case is that Facebook users were shown a “social message” at the top of their News Feed. The social message encouraged them to vote and […]

In the Inclusive Society course assignment, I found citizens’ participation in political events on social media to study the democracy brought about by this phenomenon as an expression of the promotion of the development of an inclusive society. On the one hand, this political participation in social media breaks with the traditional top-down political practice […]

Today, I have taken a course called Digital Influence, which inspired me most in social media influence. It focuses on the impact of social media on political beliefs.   Social media companies use algorithms to push content that makes people stay on the sites – this can be extreme content and extreme political views causing […]

I had an online meeting with my supervisor on February 28th at 2pm. The topic and scope of my project are determined: to study the comments on posts of videos posted on the YouTube platform in two channels run by different gender of Chinese people (a man and a woman). If the data is from […]

As my graduation topic is about social media, I will also pay extra attention to social media in my literature reading.   In the preparation for our assignment for Inclusive Society, our group’s topic of choice was civic engagement. And I also focused on social media, as a platform that enables the participation of most […]

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 […]

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 […]

I completed an essay for the Exclusion and Inequality class this week. It was my first time for writing an essay, but it has gradually developed my ability to distill ideas from the literature. Although the essay was only required to be less than 2,000 words, it still took a lot of time as it […]

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 […]