As I was clueless about my thesis research topic. Last week, I have chosen a topic that has been my recent interest in the last couple of weeks. I have become really interested in the stock market recently, and I tried to embed this newly found interest as a research topic. While doing research around Stock Market, I came up with a few questions like, Who controls Stock Market? How does it depend on mass emotions about the market? Do big corporations manipulate the stock market? This was one topic that I had in my mind as the thesis research topic. I will keep this topic at the back of my mind and read up more about Stock Market.
While discussing ideas with my classmate (Frost), we were discussing his topic and how do I feel about his topic and from there we went into different topics and ideation to think around. While discussing, one of the major topics that I thought I was really interested in doing research around was the Fake News Problem. Fake news is such a big problem in India, and there is no way to identify if the news you are getting on social media or WhatsApp forwards (especially) is a hoax or true. A potential topic for the thesis could be to do research around how fake news is being spread across social media and what is the best way to solve it.
The next step would be to do some research in the direction to see if there are current platforms that are doing similar things? Are these platforms effective? Are they really reliable? How do they crosscheck the Fake News? Do people really trust these platforms? How can we spread more awareness around the fact that one should crosscheck *forwards* before believing in it?