Introduction New media technology is a fast-changing industry with many competitors. Frequent job-hopping is a constant phenomenon in the technical department. One way for new media technicians to improve their own industry competitiveness may be to build and maintain their professional reputation so that other peers and companies can notice them (Turner, 2009, p.76). Reputation …
Reflections on Period II
Divergent and Convergent Thinking Looking back on our classes of Design thinking & Maker culture throughout the semester, I think this course is the one that makes me feel the most relevant to my past and future work. In addition to systematically learning a lot of processes and related methods of how to do digital humanities …
J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia
First, let us briefly review the topic of our group discussion.In short, JK Rowling wrote a lot of transphobic tweets that went viral: she compared people taking hormones to gay conversion therapy. She basically invalidated the concept of gender for the concept of sex. When she received a lot of backlash, she ended up making …
Public Sphere and the women right protest in Poland
In this group topic we discussed a case of Polish women protesting against the government’s anti-abortion law. According to Habermas’s definition of a Public Sphere, public sphere is a public communication with reading as an intermediary and communication as the core, and that speech is rational and speaks for public interests rather than private interests. …
Reflections on Period I
Robots & CultureRecalling the entire study of the course of Transformation in Digital Culture, our topics include discussions on the infiltration of digital media technology into all aspects of our lives, from digital socialization, digital economy, digital healthcare to digital ethnography and technomoral change. Among them, there was a discussion about robots and our culture. …
The Hurdle
The narrow dialog box only occupies one-third of my computer screen. There are three faces arranged from top to bottom. After scanning each face, I try to focus on the student who is speaking, but I still occasionally look at another classmate, or even myself, unconsciously. Are my actions strange? Does my expression look dull …
What is the soft impact of Chinese Internet hospitals on patient data?
Introduction China issued relevant policies in 2018 to support and encourage the development of Internet healthcare. Coupled with the catalysis of Covid-19 this year, the state issued a policy in February that clearly stated that eligible Internet hospital expenses should be included in the scope of medical insurance payment (Shecongtong, 2020). For a while, Internet …
