Week 2
Group Ideas Demonstration
This week we are mainly target on topic choice. From our dragon fruit group, we came up with 3 main ideas for further work: AI News, Old people, when we get old.
The idea AI News identify current work/social issues, it’s more about finding social problems arising from the current work (but not limited to the workplace environment, office) and offer new possibilities for the future work.
Old people are mainly concentrated on two dimensions: older people have rarely place for normal working even the decision-making for political and position areas are mostly charged by old people; age discrimination influence the recruitment and promotion. Basically this idea aims to find a current problems in current work place and then give some solutions according to the present problems/pain points.
Thirdly, inspired by topic of the elderly, we are also thinking about what our generation will need when we get old, that is, what the future elderly will need. Whether there will be new occupations or works coming out, these new works can be occupations for the elderly or occupations to support the elderly. Personally, this ideas is not limited to workplace problem and may be too general.
Last but not least, along with the tutor guidance, our group finally decide to focus on AI news, due to the current fact: the world is full of information, most of them are based on certain bias, which leads the information mess and eventually affect the working efficiency, attitude and overall feeling at some extents. Through the current problem, our group aim to find the future solution for information messy and make a complete evaluation for the future outcome.
Interview
Based on group topic and direction, we plan to make an individual interview with workers and stakeholders for media, news and related industries. Here are our main questions:
Q: What did you do before you came to master, and what did your organisation do?
Q: How do you feel in your past job?
Q: Ideally, how would you like your role to develop at that time?
Q: Which rules or policies didn’t you like in your workplace?
Q: Did you feel information mess(fake news, information bias) affects your work? More details?
Q: If you could have anything, what’s one thing you wish would be true in the workplace?
Along with those question, I make an interview with Zhao, a worker charging for advertising and media for several 4A companies for long time. She points she likes her past job and she has strong passion on advertising. However, overtime-working is a big disturbing for her career, which she hopes AI can replace some rigid and repeated works in the future. Inflexible punching-in policy is her uncomfortable point as overtime working is really common in advertising industry while early-morning punch-in requirement is unreasonable under such conditions. In respect of information bias, she directly admits that it is part of their working outcome because when they help brands making promotion, what they producing is in order to create more sales for severed brands. It is unlikely objective, instead, it is full of strong bias. Last but not least, she estimates AI-based technologies such as ChatGBT will make a huge development for advertising industry. Ideally, this development is helpful for current workers but she also admits this development has potential to be the complete replacement for part labour force.