Filter Bubbles / Editing the Internet
Algorithmic editing limits our results, Google and Facebook have been using them for years. Personally tailored search results seem nice enough, can you think of any problems that may create? Let’s talk about these technical elements and consider how they may also affect other areas of our lives.
2:52 Explain his quick “Egypt” experiment
4:30 Problems of the filter bubble… Netflix example
5:30 What is a balanced Information diet vs. Information JunkFood?
6:46 Algorithms don’t have the embedded ethics that the creators of them have, so he recommends what other criteria for searches?
Discussion topics:
Are Algorithms created by Corporations equipped with the same ethical foundation?
Are you Limiting your own views?
Are you learning anything new?
Are you familiar with net-neutrality and what's going on currently in the states?
Filter Bubble / Echo Chamber video..
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