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. …