In the past 8 weeks, I am very happy to take two courses in the first semester of this school year, which are Transformations in Digital Cultures and Real Virtualities. I find many topics in these courses are interesting, but if I have to choose one for each topic, then I will describe my two …
The Quantified Self: Analyzing the Sleep Quality Monitoring Application Snail Sleep
Introduction With the unceasing development on the digital technology, a variety of tasks can be conducted that are unprecedented in before. Such evolution allows people not only to be more capable in their daily life and work, but more importantly render them to have a better knowledge of their own self. To that term, health-tracking …
Transformation in Digital Cultures
This course focuses on digitalization and its transformations for society and culture. Digitalization, the process of integrating digital technologies into all areas of our lives, has produced new interfaces between society, culture and doing social research. We will discuss how the architecture of the web controls but also enables user practices. User and (online) communities …
