Our Class Blog
Come along as we explore Writing for Digital Spaces. New posts arrive weekly throughout the semester.
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Algorithms Are Programmed With Bias
This blog describes the risks and biases discussed by Estee Beck that creators place into algorithms that are programmed to accommodate users.
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Algorithms aka Little Stalkers
This post follows Zeynep Tufekci’s article and observes how algorithms trace and creates profiles for its users and how that can impact what they see.
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Is My Algorithm Making Decisions for Me?
Can algorithms influence more than your feed? Exploring how computer code shapes what we see, what we want, and how others judge us.
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Code and Why It’s Important
A response to Isabelle Nieves’ “Code”, why people should pay more attention to the platforms they use and how it’s programmed.
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Wk6 Blog: Collect, Analyze, Imagine, Teach
Algorithims judge us just being black because of the New Jim Code. Because of the hate of the past that comes back to the present.
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Online Activity
Women using iPad while codes are behind her. Everything she does is taken as information for algorithms to use later for feeds.
Categories
- About the Class (3)
- Preparation (Wk 0): Privacy & Agency on the Web (87)
- Topic 1: Digital Situationships (361)
- Topic 2: Power Distribution (101)
- Topic 3: Public Audiences, Public Authors (145)
- Uncategorized (79)
- Unused Topics from Past Semesters (404)
- Connections (11)
- Mediums (64)
- New Media (30)
- New Media and Literacy (77)
- Refining Terms (16)
- Speaking, Writing, and Literacy (75)
- Text (79)
- The (Late) Age of Print (57)
- Traditional Writing (9)
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