Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
Monday, 28 November 2011
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Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Online Filter Bubbles
The search results you thought were impartial are actually more likely than not filtered for you and without your consent. From Facebook to Google service providers are wrapping you up in a bubble. The question is not what are they showing you, but what are they not showing you? Such an ability to filter ones experience online is inevitably going to attract investors. In this enlightening talk Eli Pariser calls for service providers to take up civic ethics.
"When confronted with a list of results from Google, the average user (including myself until I read this article) tends to assume that the list is exhaustive. Not knowing that it isn't ... is equivalent to not having a choice. Depending on the quality of the search results, it can be said that I am being fed junk -- because I don't know I have other choices that Google filtered out."
Aubrey Pek, commenting on Kim Zetter's "Junk Food Algorithms": http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/eli-pariser-at-ted
Eli's new book seeks to lift the lid on secret web filtering. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You
is available now. Readers in Europe can find it here. The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From You
"When confronted with a list of results from Google, the average user (including myself until I read this article) tends to assume that the list is exhaustive. Not knowing that it isn't ... is equivalent to not having a choice. Depending on the quality of the search results, it can be said that I am being fed junk -- because I don't know I have other choices that Google filtered out."
Aubrey Pek, commenting on Kim Zetter's "Junk Food Algorithms": http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/eli-pariser-at-ted
Eli's new book seeks to lift the lid on secret web filtering. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You
is available now. Readers in Europe can find it here. The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From YouMonday, 28 March 2011
Socialbots destined to alter networking landscape
While we are ever more engaging with social media how soon before we are at the whim of automated socialbots. While we think we are taking part in a stream of human interactions online, who will soon be influencing our behaviour and more importantly, the way we spend our money.
With so much frivolity online and the "stream" or "trend" varying by the minute it will not be long before someone latches onto this new technology and starts to manipulate the way we behave. In fact how much is it already happening.
Quiet 'socialbot' quickly gains a following
Fake tweets by 'socialbot' fool hundreds of followers
With so much frivolity online and the "stream" or "trend" varying by the minute it will not be long before someone latches onto this new technology and starts to manipulate the way we behave. In fact how much is it already happening.
Quiet 'socialbot' quickly gains a following
Fake tweets by 'socialbot' fool hundreds of followers
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