Category: Wk 5: Algorithms, Platforms, & Data
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Can we trust the Data they feed us?
A feminist perspective on how data can reinforce discrimination, silence marginalized communities, and why we must question who controls the numbers.
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Power and Privilege with Posting Online
The power and privilege of internet users can play a huge role in the oppression towards different minority groups and peoples online.
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Algorithms and the Companies Behind Them
The rise of technology has given compaines a degree of deniablity when it comes to what is searched shared, or censored.
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Becoming Skeptical of Digital Data
It is important to become Skeptical of Digital Data and analyze the credibility of a source because there are often risks of spreading misinformation.
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Power in Algorithm
Power in Algorithm and agency stood out. Algorithms seem to run a lot of parts of human life now, given that we are so technologically advanced
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Are We Scrolling Without Even Realizing It?
Social media habits shape our emotions and opinions more than we realize. Learn how scrolling and lurking affect our daily lives and what we believe.
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Blind Trust
A Google search engine that many people rely on to search different questions and research. It displays the search bar with nothing searched yet.
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Algorthims and Confirmation Bias
The meer existence of algorithms create a cycle of influencers doing their best to take advantage of the way any one works.
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Just Scrolling? How Social Media Shapes Our Feelings
Just scrolling can influence more than we realize. This week’s reading explores how social media habits shape our emotions and responses to information.
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Wk 5: Sneaky Rhetorics, Habitual Media, and the Affective Politics of Lurking on Facebook
Social media almost always causes more harm than good. The emotions that is pulls out of its users are negative and harmful.
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Social Media and Sneaky Rhetorics
I chose to read Sneaky Rhetorics, Habitual Media, and the Affective Politics of Lurking on Facebook because this focuses on social addiction.
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Google and the Misinformed Public
Google results are not always accurate or fair. Learn how elementary teachers can help students check sources, spot bias, and use online information wisely
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Google and the Misinformed Public
In my opinion, Safiya U. Noble makes a good point in her article, “Google and the Misinformed Public.” I think a lot of people trust Google
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Digital Rhetoric and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Digital rhetoric and human-computer interaction (HCI) share strong connections, particularly in the design and use of digital interfaces.
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Pondering Is a Dying Art
Popular technologies like the internet, and platforms like Youtube, all have important messages to ponder over. Learn how to, here.