Filter Bubble: Annotated Bibliography
Annotated bibliographies are a useful way to take notes. An entry in a bibliography has three separate sections:
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1.An accurate summary of the key points, terms, and claims of the source. Your own beliefs, values, and judgments do not matter in this part of the entry.
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2.An assessment of the source's accuracy, value to your own project, and the connection between the source and other writers on the topic.
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3.An reflection on how the work helps you, how it fits into your argument, how it helps you think about the topic in a new way.
For a complete discussion of annotated bibliographies, see the Purdue OWL, HERE.
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Annotated Bibliographies
Andrew Coutts
Professor Culik
English 1190, Section C1603
February 14, 2013
Davis, Corey. Relevancy Redacted: Web-Scale Discovery and the "Filter Bubble". N.p.: Purdue University, 2011. Web. 14 Feb. 2013.
Access Here: http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284314965
Search Engine: Google Scholar
Search Terms: Online Filter Bubbles
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: a Filter Bubble uses relevancy and personalization to filter online results based on what your search or click history was in the past. In a filter bubble, web sites use similar algorithms to guess what information a user wants based on what they know about the user, such as location, previous clicks, and their search history. A filter bubble uses relevancy to find a connection with a certain topic at hand. For example,when you search google over 200 signals determine the relevant search results, including location, if you are logged on to your google account, if you allow your browser to accept cookies from google, and also previous search history. Two people can search the same terms and increasingly the results are different. And the relevancy of personalization challenges what we click on or searched before to increasingly see results based on what we've looked at before. based on the concept of the filter bubble and relevancy, the large scale hyper textual web search engine is a major way that google and yahoo helped people access information on the web, through the creation of directories and other lists. With these search engines the web is growing to fast to continue to organize information and that is where the filter bubble and algorithms come in to place. Human web editors simply couldn't keep up with the constant increase in information.
Assess: Filter Bubbles and Relevancy help us narrow down and find different results according to our previous searches and activity. The Importance of this article is to explain the concepts of web-scale discovery and the filter bubble. over the course of the article the author mentions and cites, and connects the concepts of the filter bubble with Eli Praiser, the author of “The Filter Bubble: what the internet is hiding from you”. Also the author mentions that Praiser says, “pleasant and familiar and confirms your beliefs is becoming increasingly synonymous with relevancy”
Reflect: This article really helped me understand the concepts on how the filter bubble relates to algorithms, relevancy, personalization, and algorithmic literacy. I think this article does I great job explianing the concepts invloving the online filter bubble and how it generates different results according to people’s location, type of computer and web browser, and their previous searches.
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Andrew Coutts
Professor Culik
English 1190, Section C1603
February 14, 2013
Beinsteiner, Andreas. Filter Bubble and Enframing: On the Self-Affirming Dynamics of Technologies. N.p.: Institute of Philosophy, n.d. Web. 13 Feb. 2013.
Access Here:http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-859/paper3.pdf
Search Engine: Google Scholar
Search Terms: Online Filter Bubble + Algorithms
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: This Article mainly discusses the filter bubble, enframing, and the self-affirming dynamics of technology. To start of it discuses how the Filter Bubble works to personlize a search engines results by ranking peoples results based on their personalization. The filter bubble tends to dramatically confirmation bias in a way it is designed to. Personalization is the act of human that involves using technology to accommodate the differences between individuals. Personalization occurs when people search the same thing in google and they get different results. On the web there is to much information and the filter bubble uses enframing to filter the enormous amount of data. In the article, the author cites Martin Heideggers philosophy of technology, “Heideggers concern is the inexhaustible richness of being getting filtered”. The inexhaustible richness of being is not a kind of mythological postulate. The last thing that is talked about is the Dynamics of technology being exposed to the potential infinity of possible ways of conceptualizing the world. Self affirming dynamics are not exclusive to technology but denote a danger that always threatens man.
Assess: Through this article I think it was important that the author discussed how the filter bubble and and enframing relate to the the dynamics of technology and she really goes in detail how the filter bubble uses personalization and enframing to generate results on a web search that is different for each person and each individual computer. A comparison of the filter bubble and enframing might not only produce a deeper understanding of both phenomena, but it reveals the discussion of self-affirming dynamics as an essential task for media studies and searches on the internet.
Reflect: This article really explained to me how the filter bubble and enframing work together according to a persons search results and interests on the web to filter what you will get in the future when you search for something on google. It also explains how personalization and the filter bubble generates the search results on the internet and how it show results we might want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.
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Andrew Coutts
Professor Culik
English 1190, Section C1603
February 14, 2013
Bozdag, Egin, and Job Timmermans. Values in the filter bubble Ethics of Personalization Algorithms in Cloud Computing. N.p.: Delft University of Technology, 2011. Web. 13 Feb. 2013.
Access Here (starts on page 7): http://mmi.tudelft.nl/ValuesInDesign11/proceedings.pdf#page=7
Search Engine: Google Scholar
Search Terms: Online Filter Bubble + Algorithms
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: This article explains the ethics of Web personalization, as known as the process of changing the content and structure of a web application to adapt it to the specific needs, goals, interests and preferences of each user. It the article also discuses the process of Filtering information. Filtering involves a designed channel of communication and a system of people with three kinds of roles. senders, receivers, and the filterer. And information is displayed by using personalized filtering that use algorithms to practice the role of the gatekeeper, reducing the volume of information reaching their users during the reporting stage. Also the article discusses how Autonomy relates to filtering information by using self governance, the ability to construct one's own goals and values, and to have freedom to make choices and plans and act in ways that are believed by one to help achieve these goals and promote these values. And those values are what gives the Filter Bubble an Idea of what you might want to see when you search the web.
Assess: The importance of this article is to explain who algorithms operate without control and knowledge of the user, leading to the filter bubble. In this article the author discuses the three human values that determine what the personalized filter does to generate results on the web. The three terms are autonomy, identity, and transparency.
Reflect: This article helped me understand the concepts and values involved in the filter bubble and how the ethics of algorithms determine each users personalization and the algorithms work together to come up with results that humans may want to see on their screen but their might be things that a person is not expecting to see. The Algorithms do not know what the user wants but the Filter Bubble ranks the search results according the users previous searches, clicks, and the type of websites they visit.
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Zaklina Mladenovski
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1608
14 February 2013
Miles, Matthew B. Qualitative Data as an Attractive Nuisance: The Problem of Analysis. Vol. 24. N.p.: Sage Publications, Inc., 1979. N. pag. 4 vols. Administrative Science Quarterly. Web. 13 Feb. 2013. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/2392365>
Summary: The short preview summary of this book starts off by giving an analogy similar to qualitative data. It uses the example of abandoning a car in your backyard and a child coming from different areas to play in it; if anything happens with these children such as injuries, the persons whose abandoned car that was is responsible and this is extremely similar to qualitative data. As an abandoned car is attractive to little kids to go play in, qualitative data is very attractive to users for several reasons. Qualitative data is important for the simple fact that it provides valuable information. The good qualities qualitative data contains is not only meaningful to the producers, but for the consumers as well. "They tend to reduce a researcher's trained incapacity, bias, narrowness, and arrogance." Overall, this reading talks
about how qualitative data is extremely useful, but high in demand and individuals struggle with how to process this type of data because sometimes it is not always well formatted. Qualitative data eases the mind when worrying about receiving unreliable or invaluable information from the web. This articles states the purpose of qualitative data and also how it could be problematic.
Assess: I really like the fact that this is not just an article that is stating the benefits and purposes of qualitative data. It takes the time to consider things that also may be problematic with this type of data which is always good to question every little thing you research and think outside of the box. It is extremely useful to read something that opens up my mind to other possibilities of things that only seem to usually be one-sided.
Reflect: Reading about the purpose of qualitative data and all the benefits that come with it will allow me to return back to my claim which is how the internet needs to be providing more qualitative data on the internet rather than mostly quantitative. Acknowledging that qualitative data also has its own issues allows me to not be as biased when writing this paper and or pro-con like because I am aware that each form of data is not perfect. A lot more research on qualitative vs. quantitative data will allow me to establish the problem the internet is causing toward all users.
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Zaklina Mladenovski
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1608
14 February 2013
"Ethical issues in qualitative research on internet communities." BMJ (2001). Administrative Science Quarterly. Web. 13 Feb. 2013. <http://www.bmj.com/content/323/7321/1103.extract>
Summary: This article starts off by explaining how the internet has become an extremely useful tool that represents a lot of individuals’ opinions, concerns, desires, etc. This article then goes off to talk about qualitative analysis of material that is published on the web and how it really serves great purpose for users needs, concerns, wants and much more. Later discussed are new problems that are being defined in research ethics concerning privacy issues and how the differences between public and private have become a little sketchy and blurred. Another issue this article raises is informed consent. Overall, potential harms are considered and brought up when using the web and whether or not we can trust what is being put out on the web from users because we are unsure whether or not it will be used in public or private space. Confidentiality is considered in how it can be protected and also whether or not, and how informed consent should be approached.
Assess: I really like this article because it seems to think at all key problems the internet has; confidentiality is discussed and solutions about informed consent are discussed. Not only does this article talk about problems we encounter when we go on the web, but it also discusses how qualitative data serves high purpose to individuals using the web beyond their wants and needs. I also thought it was interesting how there were two separate categories on the internet discussed: Private vs. public. No one really acknowledges the possible harms in what they research
and how it could possibly go either way.
Reflect: All of the different ideas and key points that were proposed in this article allow me to think of other issues aside from what my claim may be. These other points will allow me and help me into creating "the big picture." This article is extremely useful in all of the different issues discussed and solutions that could help these potential hazards for users. Articles like this and research on other articles raising similar questions about the web will help me get
a good formation in order to create something useful I can write about.
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Zaklina Mladenovski
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1608
14 February 2013
Miles, Matthew B., and Michael A. Huberman. Drawing Valid Meaning from Qualitative Data: Toward a Shared Craft. Vol. 13. N.p.: American Educational Research Association, 1984. N. pag. 5 vols. Educational Researcher. Web. 13 Feb. 2013. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/1174243>
Summary: This article starts off by talking about different models and types of research and jumps into the concept of the need and procedures to judge the validity and usefulness of research that we receive from the web. It also goes in depth about the idea of blending two perspectives in research and consequences that arise from such blending. This "blending" they are talking about is quantitative and qualitative data. This article seems to focus a lot about qualitative analysis and its purposes. This article also goes on and gives examples of peoples work and actual practice of educational criticism.
Assess: This article stands out to me because it talks about a lot of other things rather than what I am researching, it gives several analogies and real life examples of peoples’ work ethic which really makes me think beyond other things I have read regarding my topic. Although this information is a little different from most of the things I have researched, I wouldn't say it is irrelevant; it only opens up my eyes more about other possibilities of work and research done by professionals. It is always interesting to read about things that are a little off topic because I always gain more insight than I expected.
Reflect: The different ideas and points discussed in this article will help me in looking at real life scenarios and other issues professionals’ encounter that allow them to create better work. This would be a good example because it allows me to link similar ideas to the internet. Whenever I can make links from different articles to what I am researching, it is always a good opportunity in making a more useful paper with much more detail and insight. Articles like this
that are a little off base but still pertain to what I am researching really allows me to think outside of the box and explore bigger ideas in helping to make a stronger claim.
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Jenna Tierno
Professor Culik
English 1190-c1608
14 February 2013
Filter Bubbles
Stray, Jonathan. "Are We Stuck in Filter Bubbles? Here Are Five Potential Ways Out" Niemen Journalism Lab. Web. 11 July 2012.
< http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/07/are-we-stuck-in-filter-bubbles-here-are-five-potential-paths-out/>
Summary: Jonathan Stray's article talks about Eli Pariser's speech which about how we search on the internet-google and how things get filtered out on their own. Stray also points out five different proposals on algorithms and the internet. The five proposals consist of: 1. stop speculating and start looking, 2. bring creation into journalism, 3. build filtering algorithms, 4. don't just filter, map and 5. figure out what we really want.
Assess: I think this article is great because it shows many different scenarios on filter bubbles and shows that different people have different information needs. Without algorithmic filtering systems, we would be lost in the flood of the web. People continuously argue on algorithmic filters and the horrible things it can cause. Why not try new things instead of argue?
Reflect: I find this article beneficial to my paper because it opened my eyes to filter bubbles in peer review and all that it can cause. The five proposals helped me see how filter bubbles work in different ways.
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Jenna Tierno
Professor Culik
English 1190-c1608
14 February 2013
Filter Bubbles
Hossenfelder, Sabrine. "Filter Bubbles" Back reaction. Web. 11 May 2011.
<http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2011/05/filter-bubbles.html>
Summary: Sabrina Hossenfelder's article talks about how the internet only processes the most relevant parts of your search.- things you have searched in the past or even earlier that day. This can be good and bad. This article explains how filters are designed by software engineers. Hossenfelder also talks about Eli Pariser's speech and says " Pariser makes the point extremely well".
Assess: I think this article is wonderful because it is very helpful when it comes to writing my own paper on filter bubbles in peer review. It explains the process of filter bubbles. Also how the internet keeping track of your most relevant searches.
Reflect: I find this article helpful to my paper because, it talks about everything we are learning right now except goes a bit more into depth where I am grasping the knowledge on filter bubbles more. Sabrine briefly talks about the illusion of knowledge and how it leads people to believe they have all of the relevant information already, not needing to search anymore in depth. This really helped me for my paper because I know that if you just do that extra bit of research, you can find something really worth your time.
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Jenna Tierno
Professor Culik
English 1190-c1608
14 February 2013
Filter Bubbles
Charbonneau, Oliver. "Review of The Filter Bubble by Eli Parizer" Outfind. Web. 24 July 2012.
< http://outfind.ca/2012/07/24/review-of-the-filter-bubble-by-eli-parizer/>
Summary: Oliver Charbonneau's article is more of a review on Eli Pariser's speech: What the Internet Is Hiding From You". Charbonneau talks how filter bubbles start from algorithms which come with the search results on your computer. Oliver's article talks a lot about filter bubbles and some things that are interesting to him. One quote that stood out to me was "the filter bubble introduces 3 dynamics: "we are already in it", "it is invisible" and "you don't choose to enter the bubble". In conjunction of how much information we produce, this leads to what Steve Rubel calls the attention crash".
Assess: I think this article is great because first it brings us back to that speech that Eli Pariser gave on the internet and what it is hiding from you, all of the things that can happen. This is important because This is important because it shows what an impact Eli's speech had on many people and how important it actually is. This speech was eye opening, and to have it brought up in numerous articles shows how important it really is. This article talks about filter bubbles and everything that it can come with: the good and the bad.
Reflect: I find this article beneficial to my paper because it has helped me see how important it is to realize filter bubbles not only in peer review but just on the internet in general: anything that is searched on google or any other search engine. This article will help me with my paper on filter bubbles showing the importance of it and taking me back to Eli Pariser's speech helped a lot, and helps me get straight path of knowledge on this topic.
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Jennifer Gerlando
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190 C1608
February 15, 2013
Popular Source
http://www.thefilterbubble.com/yahoos-manmachine-algorithm-the-numbers-are-in
Yahoo’s man+machine algorithm: the numbers are in
JULIA KAMIN / AUGUST 3RD, 2011
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: Yahoo developed a personalization team called Fast Company in 2009. The personalization system that Yahoo has managed to set up allows 50-100 versions of “Today” that an individual will see pop up on the Yahoo home screen. This meaning that Yahoo’s algorithm bots will direct an online user to certain information that gives everyone a different outlook on the “Today” that each person will see. Yahoo’s “Today” box is continuously increasing and because of that personalization makes us more likely to click on a link. Even back when Fast Company went to go see President Obama make a speech in regards to the troops in Afghanistan, Yahoo’s algorithm was right on point when predicting that it’s users would not be impressed with the story on the speech. Due to the fact that the algorithm’s prediction was correct, Fast Company made sure that every Yahoo user was going to see that story on the Yahoo home page.
Assess: This article caught my attention due to the fact that there is a personalization team in control of the information distributed on the Yahoo website. Also, this article touches upon some of the key points/terms that were discussed in class. I am not sure whether or not I agree with personalizing information but I find it really interesting that Yahoo does have editors that determine who sees what on it’s website.
Reflect: I think that this article is beneficial because it will allow for me to make claims about the filter bubble that can be tied in with the peer review process.
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Brett Anderson
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190
14 February 2013
Ad Clicks in Filter Bubbles
Goriunova, Olga. Empty Interest. NY/London: n.p., 2011. Print.
http://computationalculture.net/review/empty-internet
Summary: This article explains how ad clicks work through search engines, such as Google. Whether you are logged into a Google account, or even if you don’t even have a Google account, you still are affected by ad clicks on your computer. Google manages to pull information from your web browser, IP address, etc. Also, Google has the right to go through your information and they share it with ad agencies. You have no constitutional rights when it comes to Police wanting to search your web history through Google. He then goes on to explain how the internet is changing with things such as ad clicks, and although it is debatable, for the most part, it’s not changing for the better.
Assessment: This article pertained a little better to the topic. It showed that Google gives you basically no say on giving out your information to the ad agencies, and how you have basically no constitutional rights when it comes to your account.
Reflection: This article really opened up my eyes to ad clicks in filter bubbles. I never knew that my information could be shared with ad agencies, and how you really don’t have any say or control. I think this is going to create a real problem in the internet world; however, I don’t believe that many people know much about it yet. Something should be done, and I think someone, like Eli Pariser, is going to open up the eyes of the blindsided internet users that don’t know.
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Brett Anderson
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190
14 February 2013
Gate Keeper in Filter Bubbles
Gatekeeper. N.p.: n.p., 2013. Print.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_keeper
Summary: In this article, we find out what a gate keeper is. A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something. There are gatekeepers all over the internet, who control academic admissions, financial advising, news editing, etc. Gatekeepers look at things such as race, gender, ethnicity, social class, grades, etc. He also explains how this can relate to peer review because peer review tends to be sometimes bias. It also tends to fit with the way the reviewers look at a writers writing, depending on if they’re white or black, rich or poor, etc. As for gatekeeping in the internet world, for most, is arguably a very bad idea to be withholding information from people.
Assessment: This article was extremely helpful. It showed what a gatekeeper was, and how those people can be related to peer reviewers, in the form of bias. It is found both in peer review and in gatekeeping. These two things may not seem fair because it’s like they’re judging you on your work, even before they read it.
Reflection: This was a great article. It helped me to understand the relation between peer review and gatekeeping, which is the purpose of the assignment. Just because someone may be wealthy or poor, etc., should not matter how information is withheld from them, through filter bubbles.
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Brett Anderson
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190
13 February 2013
Transactive Filter Bubble
Filter Bubble. N.p.: Wikipedia, 2013. Print.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_Bubble
Summary: This article starts off explaining what a filter bubble is and how Mr. Eli Pariser has found that websites, such as Google, filter your results. In other words these big websites withhold information from you, which in theory, can make you have a different opinion on a topic that you’re researched. Pariser and a man named Jacob Weisberg, created an experiment to see if more than one person gets the same result when they researched a topic. They found that each person gets different results when typing the exact same thing. This is what a transactive filter bubble is. It is when a group tries to find the exact same information on the topic they’re researching, and if it will stick in their mind.
Assessment: I found this article very helpful. It tells about what filter bubbles are, and how they work. Most people, if not all, get different search results when researching a topic. This is when the information found goes in the researcher’s transactive memory and how it stays in their mind.
Reflection: This article helped me to understand that in order for you to get good information that you can put in your transactive memory, you have to realize and pick your sources carefully because you are going through filter bubbles in your search results.
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Joshua Zefic
English 1190
Culik
February 16, 2013
Scholarly source:
Memon, Nasrullah, and Henrik L. Larsen. "Practical Algorithms for Destabilizing Terrorist Networks." http://link.springer.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Feb. 2013. <http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F11760146_34?LI=true>.
Summarize: The article is about using algorithms to destabilize terrorist networks. These newly introduced algorithms can view the structure of the terrorist networks/non-hierarchical organizations in order to destabilize the oppositions. This will all depend on the degree of centralities, there are several degrees of centralities the article explains. Each one can propose the roles of the network from the leaders, gatekeepers, and followers. This can help in law enforcement agencies in capturing terrorists.
Assessment: I feel the article is a good source and accurate in its information. It describes methods of identifying members of terrorist organizations and how algorithms can help find and capture them. I like this source because it speaks about algorithms in another way, instead of talking about how they limited information and how they invade privacy. It speaks how the algorithms can assist law enforcement and security.
Reflect: This article enlightened another side of how algorithms can do good, because I was fixated on this idea of how algorithms are bad and they limit information. But, this got me thinking of how I can branch this method of using algorithms for good into my claim.
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Joshua Zefic
English 1190
Culik
February 16, 2013
Scholarly source:
books.google.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Feb. 2013. <http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5aFBUYP-fAYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA73&dq=algorithms%2Bgatekeepers&ots=2yDA2FuN6D&sig=i813we7--xZ25L5h0YfY-kmHtbI#v=onepage&q=algorithms%2Bgatekeepers&f=false>.
Summarize: This article talks about how journalists are “bombarded with information” from the internet, newspapers, television, and radio news, news magazine and their sources. Their job of selecting the small amount of info that becomes news would be impossible without gate keeping. The article than goes into great detail on why gatekeeping and understanding the process is essential.
Assessment: The article is a good source because it provides an outline of how journalists are basically the gatekeeper to the world. They tell us “the news is not simply a compliant supporter of elites or the Establishment or the ruling class; rather, it views nation and society through its own set of values with its own conception of the good social order”. Basically the journalist attempt to present the information the society would.
Reflection: I feel I could use this article in my argument to say that although the journalists may try to present the information in a way the society would want, whos to say society wants it that way. From a bunch of beliefs that a majority may have? I think it is still a grey area for one journalist or several to snip and cut information in a way to please all society. For example you cannot build a car for everyone, but you can build one for a target group, a target market same goes with the news there has to be a target audience.
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Joshua Zefic
English 1190
Culik
February 16, 2013
Scholarly source:
books.google.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Feb. 2013. <http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=wcalrOI1YbQC&oi=fnd&pg=PT26&dq=algorithms+filter+bubbles&ots=I0g2vsOyMu&sig=m8nd5VqM1FZKFbvsmG7hlpFPPF4>.
Summary: This article tells the story of how a man came up with this idea to sell products more effectively on amazon by using Algorithms. The article than goes into depth on how the algorithm system can be used as a way of sorting information etc. It also tells of how companies pay for their product to be recommended by the website, if the search triggers an algorithm for that item.
Assessment: I feel the article is credible because it explains the business aspect of algorithms and filter bubbles and the information sector as well. It provided examples of websites and people of took part in this venture and helped develop the personalized settings.
Reflection: I could use some of this information in my claim that the algorithms main objective is to sell you something or read information they want to you read, all in a bigger picture to think about something or purchase an item. In general algorithms alter the opinion of someone; it is a catalyst waiting to be triggered by a key word or search. So question everything that is searched and read.
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Dominic Pacini
Professor Culik
English 1190
16, February 2013
Annotated Bibliography
Summarize: Over the years searchers have come to realize that the Internet has begun to filter our searches. These “filter bubbles” go through our past searches and key terms and choose what they think is the best information for us. These filter bubbles use algorithms, a mathematical way to make decisions. The concern with this is that the web surfers believe this will leave us all isolated with limited amounts of information given to us by major search websites.
Assess: Every page of information I have found has given the same if not somewhat related information on this topic. The fact that most of the information is the same reassures me of the validity of the data. This topic is becoming more popular by the day. The author talks about the concerns and his own reflections on filter bubbles, which are similar to mine in my argument.
Reflect: My argument involves the concern with limited information given to each person searching a topic. The author goes into a main concern of all searchers as well as his own issues. This information will be very helpful with my claim in this assignment.
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Dominic Pacini
Professor Culik
English 1190
16, February 2013
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: In attempt to find a way around filters on the Internet, this article caught my eye. It explained that there is no actual way around them just ways to “de-personalize” your searches. It details 10 different ways to throw off these filters with your information. It says what to do, as well as a step-by-step procedure on how to do so.
Assess: From our lectures in class and different articles I’ve read this information is stated in almost all. When connecting to my argument it will really help the body of my paper. I have found this information on several different sites, each written by different authors, which brings me to know that these ways have been found to work.
Reflect: This information is going to be extremely useful in my paper. It will give a bright side to the black hole of solitude know as filter bubbles. This article really gave me hope if anything. Hope that there are, or will be, ways to get around filter bubbles and knockout the wall of limited information and allow all sources of information in besides what these algorithms “think” we want.
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Dominic Pacini
Professor Culik
English 1190
16, February 2013
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: Eli Praiser, author of “The Filter Bubble” discussed the fact that the internet filters our search terms from past searches or things we share and post. This article written by him as well is him telling us about a new project he is working on called, “Upworthy”. A project designed by him and Peter Koechley that is available to everybody. This website contains articles, websites, all sorts of information that is highly shareable to give more insight to the topic that youre searching.
Assess: Since Eli wrote “the Filter Bubble” his credentials are known. He is extremely knowledgeable on the subject and this website is already a hit. When detailing my argument I will definitely be using this source and getting useful data from other searchers everywhere.
Reflect: Having access to the information found by others on the same topic you are researching is a huge plus when you are finding the same information on things you search. It opens the limiting gates of the Internet.
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Danielle Tonne
Prof. Culik
ENG 1190 MW 8am
16 Feb. 2013
Annotated Bib. #1 Paper #2
Cheek, G., Shehab, M., Truong Ung, Williams, E., "iLayer: Toward an Application Access
Control Framework for Content Management Systems", Policies for Distributed Systems
and Networks (POLICY), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on, On page(s): 65 – 72
SUMMARIZE: The paper reveals that personalization does in fact, invade privacy. Companies have now created “recommender tools” for marketers and other internet users to try. These tools were created from algorithms whose job it was to learn everything about the user down to what they shopped and how they shopped. The algorithmic tool would “recommend” what other sites would be good to buy stuff from and so forth.
ASSESS: The paper did have some good points about personalization and algorithms. It was interesting that there are some algorithms that collect information and give it to other companies for soliciting, but then there are another type of algorithms that only help the user find good deals for purchasing online.
REFLECT: This article helped me understand more about personalization, and it linked algorithms with it too. It explained how personalization works, but did not go into enough detail about the algorithms. This was unfortunate because I understand how algorithms are used, but I do not understand how they are created, or what their original purpose is for. I will have to do more researching, but this was great beginning article.
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Annotated Bib. #2 Paper #2
Gordon, Michael, and Paveen Pathack. "Information processing and Management." Science
Direct. N.p., Mar. 1999. Web. 16 Feb. 2013.
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457398000417>.
SUMMARIZE: In a recent study, the traditional way of retrieving information versus online search engines were looked at. The experiment stated that search engines were “essential” for retrieving data from users whom had legitimate reasons for information, not marketing purposes.
ASSESS: This study basically says that search engines are great for users whom are searching for actual research information. Whereas, personalization of the search engines are mainly for online buyers, marketers, and people who need a certain selection.
REFLECT: This paper was helpful in the way it stated its conclusion. It also has experimental graphs, statistics, and other valuable information. I liked the summary of it because it was straight to the point without a lot of difficult scientific vocabulary. Overall, this was great for building information. I learned that perhaps algorithms may not be needed and that search engines can just be used for information and not for ads and buying.
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Annotated Bib. #3 Paper #2
Bradford, Craig. "Don't build links.build bubbles." Distilled. N.p., 4 Dec. 2012. Web. 16 Feb.
2013.
SUMMARIZE: This was a very interesting article because it involved Google with filter bubbles. Basically, companies who want to promote themselves on Google can create a filter bubble instead of a link to put their webpage at the top of users’ searches. The world is taking the step towards Google Plus for promotion of music, ads, entertainment, business, etc.
ASSESS: Hopefully, if all of the ads and marketing is aimed for Google Plus, then perhaps the normal Google will only be used for informational searches and there will be no personalization.
REFLECT: I enjoyed this paper because it provided Eli Pariser’s video and then the author put their own twist on the subject. It was interesting that they aimed the filter bubble towards a major search engine such as Google. This really shows what the Google Inc. is doing with all of their funds: they’re actually aiming the world towards personalization.
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Rashel Amanuel
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190 c-1608
2/15/13
Wakefield, Jane. "When algorithms control the world." BBC News. N.p., 23 Aug. 2011. Web. 15 Feb. 2013. http://www.comp.dit.ie/BTierney/BSI/When%20Algorithms%20Control%20the%20World.pdf
Search engine: scholar.google.com
Search words: the filter bubble and algorithm
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Summary: technology is getting better and it’s taking over our world. Websites such as Facebook and Google use web services with smart web codes that do the work. Also, algorithms are controlling trading and our social network that we use on the daily bases. We might need to start thinking about these robots because they are doing some work without us supervising them. Also humans are using algorithms to make decisions for them. For example, an algorithm helped studios find out whether a movie would be worth making or no. another thing is that internet is shaping our knowledge and making us think in a different way. We are now relying on internet for memory more than our brains and that would be caused by all the search engines that are available now.
Assessment: this article would be helpful and I can use it for paper because it is using quotes from what other experts have said about the topic. This article talks about something many people did not realize or they don’t think about. Robots and technology are taking over this world without even us noticing that. They are also becoming a part of our lives each day and they are also personalizing us.
Reflection: this article helped me understand how algorithms are now used to make decisions for us, and they are working and doing things without our supervision and that leads to a problem that is invisible to people. Now I have more ideas and facts about how algorithms work and how they affect our lives.
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Rashel Amanuel
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190 c-1608
2/15/13
ucher, tania. "Want to be on the top? Algorithmic power and the threat of invisibility on Facebook." Sage 14 (2012). Print.
http://nms.sagepub.com/content/14/7/1164
Search words: facebook algorithms
Search engine: scholar.google.com
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: this article is talking about how visibility is connected to the social media. It focuses on Facebook and how something’s are invisible to users. It also focuses on the power of algorithms and how they are affecting the visibility on Facebook and how algorithms are controlling the flow of information for people. The author used the phrase “threat of visibility” and how many things are visible to us but a lot are not.
Assessment: this article is accurate because is published in a journal and I can defiantly use it in my paper. This article is mentioning many important things such as visibility and how much it matters to us. But many people don’t know what is going on because of many things such as algorithms that are controlling the network we use.
Reflect: this article helped me understand that many things are invisible to us but we don’t know about them. Many things are affecting our lives such as the social network but many people don’t know about that. I was one of the people that didn’t know about the filter bubble and algorithms and how invisible they are.
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Rashel Amanuel
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190 c-1608
2/15/13
Beinsteiner, Andreas. "Filter Bubble and Enframing: On the Self-Affirming Dynamics of Technologies." . Vizerektorat für Forschung, Leopold-Franzens-Un, n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2013.
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-859/paper3.pdf
Search words: problems with filter bubble
Search engine: scholar.google.com
Annotated bibliography
Summary: we live in a world where internet is growing faster and faster. Here is where filter bubble becomes important to serve many purposes. Networks such as Google and Facebook are keeping you in a bubble to choose your destiny for you the author said. Also, filter bubble is threatening democracy and freedom. When using online sources, you’re not making your own choices, they come to you through the filter bubble, but interacting with other people in the social sphere might let us break the filter bubble and we might learn more about it and how it’s working.
Assessment: this article is accurate because it is using quotes from experts and it is cited. This article is mentioning an important issue with the social network and how much effect it has on our lives and thoughts. The filter bubble is personalizing us without us noticing it and that could lead to many problems.
Reflect: this article helped me understand how important and serious the filter bubble is and how it affects our lives on daily bases without use noticing that. Many people don’t know about the filter bubble and they are living in it without even questioning it. How would they question something they don’t know about? That is the problem. But after a while I think that many people are going to start noticing about it. The filter bubble and the algorithms behind it are going to be rejected.
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Joey Rice
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1603
13 February 2013
Source: The Relevance of Algorithms by Tarleton Gillespie
Search Engine: Google Scholar
Annotated Bibliography
Summarize: The Filter Bubble system is the process of containing certain information from what is seen on the web but not allowing what should be explored as in what is new or different. The many different viewpoints of other peers. Filter Bubbles is the process of what knowledge is. Understanding the way experts take different viewpoints and discoveries to create new ideas to make known of what is credible. With the filtering process blocking most of the access, the only known is what is relevant after that time has passed.
Access: Algorithms should have more freedom. From being supervised by man to being electronically supervised, allowing no sense of creativity. Not being able to connect with what’s relevant, new/different, or challenging for my computer has not made me to come of new knowledge for someone for themselves or for the greater. Watching the Ili Praiser video talk about algorithms he says that not being exposed to what’s known or challenging what’s known is bad. I think that it’s a new age now where the filter bubble was new then that now it should not exists because of what we are practically being controlled of it. I say, and others say that the internet should be more open.
Reflect: I think that the filter has large amounts of information seen and un-seen. Filter Bubble blocks the creativity, important, irrelevant, and challenging ideas. Electronic algorithms decides on what was, is, and what is to come. Web services have good intentions of the news and some important issues but having personal search engines are harmful. Wondering why can’t algorithms become more free for what knowledgeable? Is the Filter Bubble useful?
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Joey Rice
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1603
15 February 2013
Search Engine: Google Scholar
http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/12/06/1461444812465137.abstract
Annotated Bibliography
Summarize: Understanding how algorithms work will help out an increasingly amount with avoiding of being in a bubble is what’s always known. Some similarities I noticed was that the Filter Bubble and Peer Review have are the changes in what’s knowledgeable. Containing and understanding the information that is credible. The Filter Bubble doesn’t allow new discoveries or questions that are throughout the process of expertise.
Access: Stopping or starting to understand what algorithmic system the world is making may help make the filter bubble more useful. From the Kevin Slavins talk about how complex algorithms are what we know to understand isn’t as it seems because the world is growing and is designed for this confusing state of mind where we cannot control. I think that if Peer Review was to get involve with the filter bubble system that the electronic algorithm control won’t be as effective. Algorithms tactics are so complex that the world is writing is a code that’s not comprehendible. Movie scripts have become more algorithmic. Filter bubble is moving too fast to stop. Algorithms I think do shape the world to where there not wanted or even they are unknown of. “The combination of algorithms, data, and knowledge from the social…making new technologies” (C.W. ANDERSON 4).Now they are what the majority of the world is consumed by.
Reflect: I think with so many algorithms being so complex, it’s difficult to understand unless someone was algorithmic expert. Algorithms are all connected to filter out what’s not being searched; I think the filter bubble may be useful in a way because it cuts out what’s hardly ever noticed. Why can’t the majority of the world understand what’s being censored or as controlled by algorithms? Why does it have to be so complicated?
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Joey Rice
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1603
16 February 2013
Search Engine: Google Search
Annotated Bibliography
Summarize: Private policy should be private for a reason, to give that certain information to a social media site or any cite for that matter is not right. To have that cite show your information on a website even your peers may see it isn’t right. That may be one of the reasons of why the filter bubble system isn’t so useful. Some private information isn’t even promised to be safe kept. Reading over Bucks review that certain information is shared to marketers or third parties. The filter bubble may be safe to an extent but being too care of private information is never too much.
Access: There is so much personal information being exposed to services and places that’s known to more than what’s realized. Not knowing of the new or having what was important sent away maybe never to be found again. “This might include anything form devices and browser information to location Intel” (Buck 1). The filter bubble is a bad idea for which there’s no safe keeping. Knowing of that bubble a person may be surrounded around not knowing of what’s being let out of that space to allow information that may be known already. Having the privacy issued to a certain network is up to the author to make sure if there information is secure because what they think that information is under protection it can still be copied and enhance for other purposes. As well as personal information. “The issue of privacy is and inherent problem due to the nature of the digital network environment” (Miles 1).
Reflect: How big are the algorithms of social media networks? Why do social media companies have more access to private policies than any other service company? Having this personal information giving to these social media sites may cause information to leak out. What if the service site shuts down personal data is still keep to that service site?
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Jennifer Gerlando
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190 C1608
February 16, 2013
Scholar Source
http://www.zaw3.co.za/index.php/ZA-WWW/2012/paper/view/574
You, according to Google – the effects of filter bubbling
Dean Von Schoultz, Johan Van Niekerk Last modified: 2013-01-17
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: The World Wide Web was originally invented for the public to share and receive information. Although, this article explains how back in 2009 Google decided to personalize every user’s search results. Using fifty-seven different kinds of feedback, Google users are more than likely going to receive information that isn’t needed. Instead of the uniting the world with the same information, all search engines are being taken over by filter bubbles.
Assess: What caught my eye about this article was that is was pretty current. This article mentions how Google is personalizing what people search and this is a very big deal because Google is one of the Internet’s top search engines.
Reflect: This article really helped me understand that if Google personalizes what it’s users search then all the other search engines must do the same thing. This article also gives me a better understanding of how the World Wide Web is no longer used to distribute equal amounts of information.
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Rachel Wyne
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190-C1603
February 18, 2013
Scholarly Articles
Search engine: Google Scholar
Search Terms: Filter Bubbles + Impact
Annotated Bibliography Sheet #1
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-859/paper3.pdf
Beinsteiner, Andreas. "Filter Bubble and Enframing: On the Self-Affirming Dynamics of
Technologies." . Web. 14 Feb. 2013. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-859/paper3.pdf>.
Summary: This article talks about what filter bubbles are and two different perspectives on them. The first perspective she talks about is Eli Pariser and all of his issues that he has with filter bubbles. He talks about the various search engines and the network services that are involved. The second perspective she talks about is Martin Heidegger and his feelings on filter bubbles.
Assess: I liked this article because it helped me have a better understanding on what filter bubbles are and where they are used. I found the information on Eli Pariser and his opinions on filter bubbles to be useful as well. I found his perspective on filter bubbles was more interesting than Martin Heidegger’s because I found I could relate it to my claim in my paper.
Reflect: Overall, I really liked this article. I may not be able to use all of the information in it, but the information I can use can really help build throughout my paper. When discussing what filter bubbles are, I will have no problem using the information from this article.
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Rachel Wyne
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190-C1609
February 18, 2013
Scholarly Articles
Search Engine: Google Scholar
Search Term: Peer Review + Limit Information
Annotated Bibliography Sheet # 2
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=194989
Jefferson, Tom. "Effects of Editorial Peer Review A Systematic Review." JAMA Network
(2002). Web. 16 Feb. 2013.
<http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=194989>.
Summary: This article talks about all the aspects of editorial peer review. It discusses how it works, the methods, and the impact that it has. Each one of these goes into specific detail in individual paragraphs. It briefly talks about the good and bad parts on peer review as a whole.
Asses: Overall, I liked this article. It was kind of long and a lot of information to digest, but I found it useful. It goes into deeper detail on editorial peer review and all of the important aspects that come with it. It gave me a better grasp on points to use in my paper and relate to my claim. I also, felt it was very credible because I have read various articles on the JAMA network and they have given a lot of information on peer review.
Reflect: After reviewing this article, I feel I will be able to use a lot of the information that was provided. The most effective parts I should be able to use it in is in the compare and contrast part on peer review and filter bubbles. It gave me many ideas on points that I can use in my paper to talk about differences and similarities on these two topics.
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Rachel Wyne
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190-C1603
February 18, 2013
Scholarly Article
Search engine: Google Scholar
Search term: Filter bubble + bias input
Annotated Bibliography Sheet # 3
Pariser, Eli. How The New Personalized Web is Changing What We Read and How We
Think. N.p.: Penguin Publishing, 2011. Web. 16 Feb. 2013.
Summary: This book talks about how much filter bubbles are apart of our use of the Internet and the negative impacts it has. The author, Eli Pariser, discusses how many popular search engines, like Google, use personalization to limit the large amounts of information that is looked up by users. This limits not only what users are reading, but also what these users are capable of thinking.
Asses: I really liked this book, it gave me a lot of information on filter bubbles and all of the networks that are involved with personalization. I also found this to be scholarly because the author is well known when it comes to personalizing information and uses various sources to back up his book.
Reflect: I intend to use this book throughout my paper, it gives a lot of information that can help back up my claim. I will also be able to use this book for the parts of my paper that compare and contrast peer review and filter bubbles.
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Rachel Blissett
Professor Culik
English 1190-c1608
02-18-2013
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2361740
“The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think” By: Eli Pariser
Search engine: Google Scholar
Search Terms: Filter Bubbles and Changing
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: In this article it is simply about how fast the world of the internet is changing. It is changing in a “blink of an eye”. Pariser mentions that our online experience is changing due to the websites we visit are getting familiar with what we simply look up. The search engines are personalizing each internet user to a “certain” default. For example, if you’re a doctor and work with medicine and always researching different antibiotics etc. the search engine will get used to the way you look up something and will forever be pulling up information about medication and tons of advertisement. Now if you’re someone who is going to look up something and use the same search engine as the doctor the information is slim due to the computer is used to looking about doctor related information. The filter bubbles reveal how personalization could undermine the internet and completely change how we think when we’re using the internet.
Assess: I feel that this article on the filter bubble and how it works is very helpful. The internet is always changing and this simply defines of how it is changing in the day to day basics. I think it’s very scary to have to read about this to know that the internet simply personalizes itself to your wellbeing and is almost controlling what you look up. I agree that the internet is always changing but I also feel that it’s changing too much and that we the users need to learn about filter bubbles to know what exactly is happening online.
Reflect: This article fits the paper I’m going to write about because what I was looking for ways to write a paper on how filter bubbles is changing the world in a blink of an eye and the users are not even noticing it. I want to write about how it needs to be changed so that people would know more about the things they look up online.
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Rachel Blissett
Professor Culik
English 1190-c1608
02-18-2013
http://asis.org/asist2012/proceedings/Submissions/291.pdf
“Unbiased Learning of Controversial Topics” By: V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, ChengXiang Zhai, Dan Roth, Peter Pirolli (2012)
Search Engine: Google Scholar
Search Terms: Biased, Filter Bubbles
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: In this article the author states the different ways the search engine can be used. The internet has simply become the most primary source to get information off of. The online source, the internet, has been changing faster than we know it. It has changed more in the last decade rather than since we were got the internet. Users use the internet to get information, such as what is a good diet, or what’s good medicine to take while being pregnant. They assume the resource is right without knowing what’s the background of the resource or where did the information come from, there simply going with a gut feeling that since it’s online that it is the right information. When this is wrong, they don’t know if it’s right so this is a form of unbiased work, its bias because they are forming a lie within a lie with the internet and believing that it’s right. I think in order to fix this people need to find out the truth of the information. Unbiased is where they are not trying to create a controversial atmosphere on the web, but frankly I believe that it is causing a huge bias break out since no one knows if the information is accurate.
Assess: I believe the way the author states that the information can be false or true online is the truth. No one knows where the information comes from. They don’t know if it’s right or wrong or if it’s useful or not. It is well possible that the seekers online have biased opinions and have false claims to where the information being posted online is FALSE.
Reflect: I think this will work well with my claim in my paper is because the first paper I wrote in peer review was about the biased outcome between the different outlooks of peer review. So I can use this information because it is trying to say that the work is unbiased when really it is biased controversial because the web is not open to a person it is personalized to what they do online. This has helped me a lot and I feel my claim will be interesting.
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Rachel Blissett
Professor Culik
English 1190-c1608
02-18-2013
http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/07/are-we-stuck-in-filter-bubbles-here-are-five-potential-paths-out/
“Are we stuck in filter bubbles? Here are five potential paths out” By: Jonathan Stray (Jul. 2012)
Search Engine: Google
Search Terms: Stuck in Filter Bubbles?
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: In this article the author states that the filter bubble is an ongoing anxiety level that doesn’t change. The argument is well defined through in algorithm, because it is being personalized to that person that is using the internet. The filter bubble is created by a simple click on something that is being displayed on the screen of the computer. It then will follow the user everywhere is goes to simply get their attention to go back to the internet. This is called advertisement, the web will use advertisement to get the users attention to go back to the site to look at it again. “There is five ways to have paths out of filter bubbles, stop speculating and start looking, bring curation into journalism, build better filtering algorithms, don’t just filter; map, and figure out what we really want.”
Assess: I think using this as a source for the paper I’m going to write is useful because it really goes in depth of what a filter bubble really is. The internet is being personalized to our way of using it and I feel that there should be a way around that. I feel the internet is holding us back in ways that it shouldn’t, it’s personalizing itself to the way we look up information and giving us boundaries and not letting us go throughout the web to get good research.
Reflect: This will work with my paper because it talks about the way the internet biases between the user and the algorithm in personalizing the web to our needs. My paper is going to be all about that due to I don’t believe that the internet should have any sort of personalization and should have privacy and should let the user be able to go through out the web without having any trouble while searching since there is no boundaries.
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Tyler Schmittler
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190 Section 1608
2-17-13
Dean Von Schoultz, Johan Van Niekerk. You, according to Google- the effects of filter bubbling. January 17th, 2013
Summary- This article starts off by giving us the background behind personalization, where it came from, why it is used and how it all works. He gives us the four distinct phases used in the personalization process, collection of web data, pre processing of web data, analysis of web data, decision making/final recommendation phase. It then gives the insight into the negative side effects of personalization and how it is limiting our exposure to the other side of an idea. It then goes into Google itself and explains how Google works and how the search information is being used and how it is processed in the system. This article finishes off with a study in France and it gives all the results used within two peoples searches.
Assessment- The authors take the time to break down both Google and the personalization process. It breaks down the problematic issues surrounding the personalization process. They have quoted many people in this paper, mainly Eli Pariser, strengthening their paper. This has a strong connection of what their saying compared to others work, they are along the same path giving the same ideas which leads to the in formation being strong valid information.
Reflection- This helped me see exactly how the personalization process works and if I wanted to how to avoid the personalization effect when searching. It doesn’t fit with my argument to strongly but it does help me see what’s happening a lot better than before, The negative side effects are more apparent as well as how Google uses the information against us.
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Tyler Schmittler
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190 Section 1608
2-17-13
Olga Goriunova. Review of Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble, what the Internet is hiding from you
NY/London: Penguin, 2011;
Summary- Empty Internet starts off by explaining what the filter bubble is, and what it stands for. Then She breaks into who Eli Pariser is and what he has started in comparison to the filter bubble. She breaks into Google’s PageRank system and how it is corrupt, giving us the information that could be less informative but were paying Google to be on top. She then quotes Eli on what he has said about Google’s’ search process as well as Facebook’s Edge Rank and how the information is picked out for the person searching rather than being anonymous. Then goes into the concentration of power of data handling and its unaccountability the two themes of Eli Pariser presentation. At last she finishes off giving Pariser’ three solutions to be upheld.
Assessment- This is a great review of Eli Pariser presentation. She breaks down every central idea that he has brought to our attention. It is a relevant because she is giving her own view on every idea he had, giving what she believes he either missed or has not elaborated on as much as she wished he had.
Reflection- I found this article informative because it gave me a greater idea of what Eli Pariser has said. He has what is viewed as the starting point of the filter bubble, learning more about his work and breaking it down can really help get the idea of what’s going on better. Looking back to what he said is always going to benefit my own paper since it’s the strongest piece of information out there. I found the section on the power of data handling being most beneficial to my work because of my claim of the gatekeepers.
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Tyler Schmittler
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190 Section 1608
2-17-13
Martijn Van Otterlo. Counting Sheep- Automated profiling, Predictions and Control. October 10, 2012
Summary- This article goes into the privacy issues in the age of big data. As well as the current technologies for big data that are increasingly able to automatically gather data, experiment with action strategies and observe results of such strategies as well as how to learn from their effects. It goes into the Control over Information and who has the information and do they do with the information given. It then goes into the interaction between data and a model, which is where the algorithmic come into play and describes the three different types of algorithms and how they are included with search engines. They then go into how personalization is using information into our searches and how they predict what we want to see. It then goes into automated profiling and the different ideas or methods played within automated profiling.
Assessment- I found this article to be great, it helped me see issues I haven’t seen before, it brought new information I haven’t heard of or seen before. It falls in line with what others have said before just in new ways, Of all the information I have looked at this may have given me the best information covering the place algorithms take place in the filter bubble process. The article mainly focused on the data control and models of methods taking place with them.
Reflection- I find this article to be beneficial to my paper by helping me realize what happens with the data and how algorithms are played into effect within the filter bubble, He really helped me look at the big data that the search engines are taking from us and why it is useful to them as well as the user. I enjoyed seeing how to learn from the effects of the filter bubble as well.
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Loreta Pepaj
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1603
2/17/13
Is Google Hiding my News, Mary Ellen Bates, COPYRIGHT 2011 Information Today, Inc.
Scholarly Source: Macomb library
Annotated Bibliography #1
Summary: This article talks about the results of a research about the filter bubbles. The research was made only to prove if the results given by Pariser were true or not. Different people tried to find information about the same subject from their own computers or different computers at work or school. All the people results were different and only 12 % of them had the same three stories in the same order. 88%of them found different results in their research.
Assess: The importance of this article is to show that everything Pariser had said in the analysis of filter bubble was true. The results given show us that the information that people get is different for every person. The statistics given supported the results.
Reflect: This article is important to me because it shows that the presence of filter bubble can make people think in different ways. It is also important for people to know that the information they find in the internet is not always the information they should know, but it’s the information they like to know. Every story given is a reflection of people’s own desires, and the filter bubbles are smart to recognize what their desires are.
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Loreta Pepaj
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1603
2/17/13
Values in the filter bubble: Ethics of Personalization Algorithms in Cloud Computing, Engin Bozdag and Job Timmermans.
Scholar source: Google scholar
Annotated bibliography #2
Summary: This is an article that explains the process of filter bubbles. It starts with explaining why the filter bubbles were created and how they function. By reading this article the internet users can understand that the process of filter bubbles is not to censure the information users get, but is mostly to make sure that the information given is the information that these users need to know. The only problem with the process of filtering is that we are unaware of the existing of these filters, and we should know that we cannot always rely on the information we find in internet.
Assess: This article informs people on why and how the filter bubbles work. With all the information that is available on the internet nowadays we could never be able to find something that we really need. Without the filter bubbles we would have to spend hours on the internet in order to find the information we need, and filters allow us to get that information in a short period of time.
Reflect: This article makes me more comfortable in analyzing the filter bubbles. It gives me a lot of information of why these filters exist. It is really important to me to know that no one is censuring my information. The filter bubbles are not created to make me see what other people think I should see. The filters are created to help me gathering the information I need to know, and I am interested in.
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Loreta Pepaj
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1603
2/17/13
Filter Bubble and Enframing: On the Self-Affirming, Dynamics of Technologies, Andreas Beinsteiner
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-859/paper3.pdf
Public source
Annotated bibliography #3
Summary: The whole article is written to let the readers know the presence of many risks when using the internet, and especially when the filter bubbles are created. First of all the article explains the filter bubbles can lead us to stereotypes, and stereotypes are dangerous in a democratic society. By using the filter bubbles we create bias. Another important concept to learn in this article is the “friendly word syndrome”. The filters can make some important public problems disappear, and this can result in the ruining of the society.
Assess: The article is written to make people understand that the filter bubbles are making them unaware of the important issues of the society in which they grow up. By reading this article people can really understand how and why stereotypes are formed. People nowadays read about the information’s they like to know and forget that there are some important problems in the world that we all need to talk about.
Reflect: This article is really helpful in understanding the concept of bias in the filter bubble. By using the internet we cannot get a contrary opinion or idea, and this leads us to think and discuss in the same way in every discussion. Internet can implant the idea that what we like now will be likable to us in the future. This will not let us learn new thing and adapt new ideas in life. We will always be a part of the frame we created in an early age.
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Linda Gojcevic
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190
17 February 2013
Search Engine: Google Scholar
Search Terms: Filter bubbles in peer review
Bozdag, Egin, and Job Timmermans. Values in the filter bubble Ethics of
Personalization Algorithms in Cloud Computing. N.p.: Delft University of Technology, 2011. Web. 13 Feb. 2013.
Annotated Bibliography 1
Summary: This article discusses the values in the filter bubble system. Facebook and Google use personalization algorithms in order to deal with the growing amount of data that is online. This is used to reduce the information overload. Signals such as keywords, location, status updates on social networks are all used in order to customize the search results for the user. The problem with this personalization of the internet is the user doesn't know it is happening and the information is filtered before the user gets it.
Assess: The filter system is used by many online websites, the most commonly sites are google and Facebook. Personalizing filtering is supposed to help the user by narrowing the search but it is also a conflict because the user is not aware of all the other possible information that is floating around the web.
Reflect: I thought this was an informative article. I gained knowledge on the filter bubble system on how it is used and why.
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Linda Gojcevic
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190
17 February 2013
Search Engine: Google Scholar
Search Terms: Filter Bubble System
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article9216484Elgan_How_to_pop_your_Internet_filter_bubble_
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Summary: This article is explaining how the internet is stereotyping the user. Google, Facebook and along with many other companies they all have personal algorithms that shape your "personality". Whether you are on a computer, cell phone or any device with the internet on it, the factors that they put in to personalize your own internet vary from your location, device you are using, and activities you are doing. Even if you are logged off the internet picks up 57 signals according to Pariser. Facebook is also another example of the filter bubble. An example that was given was someone reading your friends Facebook status, Facebook will probably cut that connection without notifying you. You are still friends without he person but you may not get his status updates because you are not taking action in his posts; meaning you are not commenting or liking his posts. But there is a way to pop the filter bubble, some examples that were given are reseting your safari, deleting history on cookies and data and the main one to click on other links that make it hard for you to be stereotyped.
Assess: I believe this is an informative site. The source was biased because it is in favor of technology related content rather than off topic information. Online personalization is invisible and many people including myself did not know it existed.
Reflect: This source was extremely helpful to me. I now understand the filter bubble concept better. It has changed the way I think about the internet because of what is behind the scenes and the invisibility.
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Linda Gojcevic
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190
17 February 2013
Search Engine: Google Scholar
Search Terms: Filter Bubble
Samuels, Mark Gregory "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You" 2012
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Annotated Bibliography 3
Summary: This article summarizes Eli Pariser's book "The Filter Bubble: What is the internet hiding from you" He examines how technology is growing ubiquitous, the cost of personalized intellectual environments, everyday researchers and scholars. He describes how Google tracks our searches, Facebook collects our likes, comments and login times. Privacy policy or not the Facebook users can be observed. Praiser's book is simply a warning to people of the online process.
Assess: The filter bubble occurs almost everywhere throughout the internet without even knowing. The goal of this article was to summarize Eli Pariser's book and to get a look into what is happening.
Reflect: I think the author of this article does a good job summarizing Eli Pariser's book. Although, I did not find reading this article helpful for my research.
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Emmanuel Jona
Professor Culik
English 1190, Section C1603
February 16, 2013 Lacey, Kim. The Information Society: An International Journal. Vol. 28. Cambridge, MA: n.p., 2012. 346-47. Web. 16 Feb. 2013. <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01972243.2012.712489>.
Search Engine: Google scholar
Search terms: (Filter Bubbles) Information control benefits
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: This article starts out by stating how the internet has changed throughout the years and questions the freedom we have while using it. There are examples, from Eli Pariser’s: The filter bubble; what the internet is hiding from you, which show how money and algorithms affect what results come up when using a search engine like Google. It also makes a good point on how people do not know what information is being hidden from them and how personalization kind of forces people to only think one way about a subject.
Assess: I think this article was a good find because it states what a problem is when it comes to using the internet and gives a good example of the problem. When companies use money to get to the top of the search list they benefit from us because those are the links we usually click, but how do we benefit? Just because a source is at the top of the page doesn’t mean it has the information we want, we are subjected to personalization and that affects the way we research things.
Reflect: I know this article will help me with my paper because it goes well with my claim. Who exactly benefits from filter bubbles and who controls the information we get to see? This article does a great job of clearing up those questions.
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Rowland, Fred. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is hiding from you (review). N.p.: n.p., n.d. N. pag. Google scholar. Web. 16 Feb. 2013. <http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v011/11.4.rowland.html>.
Search Engine: Google scholar
Search Terms: (Filter Bubbles) benefits
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Summary: This article is really a review/ breakdown of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You, Eli Pariser. It begins by briefly talking about the history of the internet and how quickly things turned south. The main idea of the article is the idea of a “filter bubble”, which is a bubble and individual is placed in that filters the information s/he receives, and revolves it around personalization.
Assess: This article does a great job of covering Pariser’s work. The author takes the major points and explains them a bit better. I learned that filter bubbles do not only exist with search engines but also with social networks (Facebook, Twitter) and even things like Netflix.
Reflect: This article will benefit me while writing my paper because it gave me information I did not know before and will be able to use. Everything is laid out in a simple way and is easy to understand. There are good points made about how filter bubbles work, hw personalization is not a new thing, and how unaware people are this is happening.
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Steve Gavrilovski
Professor Culik
English 1190
2/15/13
Corey Davis. Relevancy Redacted: Web-Scale Discovery and the “Filter Bubble”
Search Engine: Schoar.Google.com
Search terms: Search engine filter bubbles
Annotated bibliography
Summary: This article talks about how many many years ago, Google only had a certain amount of pages to where it was easier to find results that fit you. Well now that there is over a trillion pages, Google has come up with 200 signals that it reads from you when you search something on the internet to filter the websites it gives you. It reads things like previous searches, location, what type of computer, etc.
Assessment: This article fits perfect in what I’m looking for, I’m looking for certain things that Google looks at when you search something and I believe I’ve found a ton in this article. It will be very helpful in my paper. If your looking for information on what Google is doing to hide results from you this is a great article.
Reflect: This certain source right here will help me a lot. I like it because it has very in depth information on everything that Google uses to hide certain pages from you. How it has over 200 signals it looks at, and how the pages it uses have gone up from 25 million in 1999 to over 3 trillion now.
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Steve Gavrilovski
Professor Culik
English 1190
2/15/13
Brown, Lonnie. Filter Bubbles Target Ads and Info on Searches. N.p.: The ledger, 2012
Search Engine: Google.com
Search Terms: Filter bubbles
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: This article is great, it talks about how certain websites and search engines such as Google and Bing filter your information and gives you certain advertisements. Speaks about how Google uses your past searches to notice what you’re interested for, for instance if you’ve searched for a car in the last week, more than likely there will be car adds all over your computer.
Assessment: I like this article because it does a good job of telling you about the interests that Google and Bing take away from your searches and how they remember them in order to post certain advertisements on your computer. I like it as well because it’s different from my other source in the sense of this one talks about the filter bubbles for advertising and not just for the websites that the search engines show you.
Reflect: This article will do great wonders for me, it’s different from my other source which is great because I will get more information, I also like it because its short but very efficient in what its trying to tell me.
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Steve Gavrilovski
Professor Culik
English 1190
2/15/13
Thayer, Tryggvi. Filter Bubbles: A challenge for information literacy in the 21st century. N.p.: Education4Site, 2013. N. pag.
Search Engine: Google.com
Search Terms: Filter Bubbles
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: This article talks about the challenges of the so called filter bubbles. It says there will be an incredible amount of non-truths on the internet, by that he means when we search things that we’re looking for, we won’t be getting all the sources, we’ll only be getting the things that the search engine wants us to get or thinks we want to see.
Assessment: I think this article will be helpful because it shows a lot of examples of a person getting trapped in a filter bubble, I also like it because it speaks about something that Google did where it was an intentional filter bubble, not just how the algorithms do it.
Reflect: I think this article will be helpful but not as much as the other two sources, I still like it because it does have good detail and different information, and it does have a good amount of examples in it. In the end I think it will help more than I can realize now.
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Roman Vasilik
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190
17 February 2013
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/01639269.2011.622258#tabModule
Juan M. Madera, (2012) Using social networking websites as a selection tool: The role of selection process fairness and job pursuit intentions. International Journal of Hospitality Management 31:4, pages 1276-1282.
Search Engine: scholar.google.com
Key Terms: Filter Bubble
Annotated Bibliography #3
Summary: The article talked about how googles recent release of Google + has entered the new social networking space and from there it then talked about how Google's struggles with social networking projects might be related to Pariser's observation that while Facebook is good at managing relationships among people, Google is good at managing relationships among pieces of information. It also talked about how users are still undetermined as to whether or not Google is or is not doing with user data.
Assessment: The article mainly focuses on giving the information on how Google started making its own social networking site, what problems arise from it such as that the information might be visible to other third party sites and also how to address the problem with googles social networking site.
Reflection: I believe that the article has given me a fair amount of information as to how our personal information might be visible to other third party sites by using googles social networking site and how the content that we view is limited. I also think that all the information that I read will help me out when I start writing my next paper.
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Roman Vasilik
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190
17 February 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2175406
Cohen, Julie E., What Privacy Is For (November 5, 2012). Harvard Law Review, Vol. 126, 2013.
Search Engine: scholar.google.com
Key Terms: Filter Bubble
Annotated Bibliography #2
Summary: The article mainly talked about how privacy is a big problem because privacy is reactive and it said that it is ultimately inessential. Then it talked about how privacy policy does not even exist due to the fact that the self who is the real subject of privacy law and policy making is socially constructed, emerging gradually from a preexisting cultural and relational substrate.
Assessment: The article talked about the importance of privacy and how society ignores privacy due to the fact that society permits the unchecked ascendancy of surveillance infrastructures and cannot hope to remain a liberal democracy.
Reflection: I believe that the article has given me a fair amount of information about how we should not be certain that our information is protected and how privacy incursions harm individuals.
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Roman Vasilik
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190
17 February 2013
Martin Garnar. " Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom by Rebecca MacKinnon (review)."portal: Libraries and the Academy 13.1 (2013): 114-115. Project MUSE. Web. 13 Feb. 2013.
Search Engine: scholar.google.com
Key Terms: Filter Bubble
Annotated Bibliography #1
Summary: The article briefly talked about how the latest iteration of using the internet to connect like-minded people in support of common goals demonstrates the staying power of the basic technology that goes all the way back to bulletin boards and early char rooms. The book examines how changes big and small have impacted our abilities to use the internet without fear of repercussions.
Assessment: The article talked about how internet is becoming more and more restricted and how people need to work together to address the negative trends in internet freedoms.
Reflection: I believe that the article has given me a fair amount of information about how positive uses of Internet technology often overshadows the growing concerns about the loss of freedom and civil liberties due to government interference and corporate policies.
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Trevor Reed
ENGL - 1190
Professor Culik
February 17th, 2013
Parramore, Lynn. "Eli Pariser on the future of the Internet." Salon. N.p., 8 Oct. 2010. Web. 17 Feb. 2013. <http://www.salon.com/2010/10/08/lynn_parramore_eli_pariser/>.
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: With many websites "customizing" themselves for each individual, the web doesn't help us connect to each other as much. Now it is more about connecting back to yourself. For years, newspapers have been at a medium, occasionally printing articles people want to read, but not always. Now sites like Google are more appealing, taking down nonprofit sites or any chance of entrepreneurship.
Analyze: Eli Pariser has studied the idea of filter bubbles extensively. He understands that these filter bubbles are viewed as resourceful as companies, but still is against them. He says that people need to tell the internet developers that they don't like this idea, though this is likely not to happen. He also includes that people are not learning about filter bubbles, at least not the way that they really are.
Reflection: This article was very helpful. It basically expanded upon the video we watched from Eli Pariser. A look deeper into his mindset on the subject, which is interesting. Pariser is an expert on this topic and has many good papers and books written about this subject , that are very helpful.
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Trevor Reed
ENGL - 1190
Professor Culik
February 17th, 2013
Pariser, Eli. The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think. N.p.: Penguin, 2011. N. pag.scholar.google.com. Web. 17 Feb. 2013. <http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=wcalrOI1YbQC&oi=fnd&pg=PT26&dq=I nternet+filter+bubbles&ots=I0g2woOzLy&sig=NKkjte7nC8rumjJoqAGhqOdOFEQ>
Annotated Bibliography
Summary: Eli Parsier states that filter bubbles help with "personalization". They improve a website to your specific interests by its finding. He says that personalization is a bargain. In return for this filtering, we are giving these companies large portions of personal information. He also explains how filter bubbles began, and how they are used today.
Analyze: Eli Parsier explains how filter bubbles can basically control what we do and what we buy. He also mentions how filter bubbles can exploit certain personal information and give it to certain other companies. Filter bubbles block out anything that we are not interested in hearing, even if this is something that is needed to be heard.
Reflection: Eli Parsier does a good job in explaining the importance in understanding what these filter bubbles are and how they work. He knows the subject well and it shows when he is writing about it. He does a great job at pointing out the clear negatives, even the ones that we would normally skip over.
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Trevor Reed
ENGL - 1190
Professor Culik
February 17th, 2013
Wang, Min, Weizhu Chen, Benyu Zhang, Zhang Chen, and Jian Wang. "INTERNET VISUALIZATION SYSTEM AND RELATED USER INTERFACES." World Intellectual Property Organization. Microsoft, Dec. 2008.scholar.google.com. Web. 17 Feb. 2013. <http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/WO2008128136>.
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Summary: This small article describes the way that a website analyzes data by popularity. This is the patent on the idea that the information is graphed in a three dimensional box resembling a sea floor. It can also pinpoint the location that searches the specified topic the most.
Analyze: This "article" shows a little bit into how they document information for use in filter bubbles. It explains briefly how the computer can read the recorded "Ocean floor". These studies can also determine and categorize based on demographics.
Reflection: This article is important, because how are we to write about something without knowledge of how it functions. Now that I understand how filter bubbles can map different findings, it makes it easier to know how they can match your findings with others.
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Kaitlyn Stack
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1608
13 February 2013
Nefkens, Bob. Pdf file. N.p., 23 July 2011. scholar.google.com. Web. 13 Feb. 2013. <http://www.bobnefkens.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Nefkens-The-Google-Bubble-2011.pdf>.
Search Terms: Filter Bubble, Gate Keeper, Personalization
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Summary: This article talks about how Google’s Bubble came about. It asks questions about why the filter bubble is important. It also talks about the endeavors of Google and gives a general understanding of Google’s search engine. Also, how the personalization mechanisms are breaking with the traditional way of organizing the web. They also touch base on the impact of internet democracy, in which way it should function and hoe the media impacts this.
Assessment: This source is valid. All the points that the author writes makes since and is clear. This source has many different types of things to with filter bubbles within it. It has many sources and references which can lead to other great articles. It shows both sides and gives the reader a clear picture as to what they are talking about.
Reflection: This article really helped me understand everything about the filter bubble, from where it started and what Google thinks they are doing to “help” us readers. The different points that the article made helped give me a clear picture in what is really going on. It left me with some questions but helped develop my claim.
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Kaitlyn Stack
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1608
13 February 2013
Stray, Jonathan. Nieman Journalism Lab. Ed. Joshua Benton. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard , 2011. Scholar.google.com. Web. 13 Feb. 2013. <http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/07/are-we-stuck-in-filter-bubbles-here-are-five-potential-paths-out/>.
Search Terms: Filter Bubbles and Algorithms
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Summary: This article talks about how we can be stuck in filter bubbles, and how we can find the way out. The author gives you five different proposals; stop speculating and start looking, bring curation into journalism, build better filtering algorithms, don’t just filter, map and figure out exactly what you want. The article talks about the removal of all the points of view that the user disagrees with that get filtered out because of what we have previously clicked on. They also talk about building better algorithms, such as being able to pick the settings and what makes them have the power to do so.
Assessment: This source is valid and gives the reader a clear picture as to what is important about filters bubbles and how we can make sure we are not stuck in them. This source can help if you are talking about filter bubbles and their downfalls and this article gives the ways out.
Reflection: This article really gave me a clear picture of the filter bubbles and what makes them bad for us as users. The ways out got me thinking about my claim as a whole. The filter bubble can be thought of as good or bad and this article gave me both sides and helped develop my claim.
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Kaitlyn Stack
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1608
13 February 2013
Davis, Corey. Relevancy Redacted: Web-Scale Discovery. N.p.: Purdue University,
2011. Web. 13 Feb. 2013
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Summary: This article talks about how quickly we can retrieve information and how it is so easily accessed. It also touches base on how when Google started the algorithm used was very powerful. They also talk about how they determine the results that you get from Google, by the 200 different signals used.
Assessment: This article is short, but has a lot of useful information. It gives a clear picture with facts that makes the source valid and useful for research.
Reflection: This article gave me a clear picture of what algorithms mean and how they date back so far. Google has used them since 1998, therefore we know they are important. This article gave me direction for my claim.
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Jennifer Gerlando
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190 C1608
February 16, 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Pariser
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Summary: Eli Pariser is the man responsible for coming up with the theory of the filter bubble. This theory of his was discovered when he found that search engines were giving users different information based off past searches. Some people that are looking up the same thing might get entirely different search results. The filter bubble is basically filtering out information that users need to see and leaving them with information that is not important.
Assess: I know a couple of weeks ago we watched a movie about the filter bubble concept and how Eli Pariser felt about it. I chose this article to remind myself of how Eli Pariser founded the filter bubble and his perspective on it.
Reflect: I think that this article is beneficial to me because it gives me a better understanding of the term filter bubble and its problematic issues regarding online search engines. Also, I will be able to make claims in my paper that will be directed towards online personalization.
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Michelle Sceglio
Hugh Culik
ENGL 1190
2-16-13
Scholarly Source
This document didn’t have a link because it was a PDF file. So, if you choose to use it go to scholar.google.com and search the terms: “filter bubble”+ “algorithms” + “personalization.” It will show up, most likely not on the first page, but within the first four pages.
Summary: The amount of information that we can receive is growing at an extremely high rate, but the quality at which we receive and retain that information is going down. Since there is so much information, this article brings up Eli Pariser’s book “The Filter Bubble,” we are beginning to receive only what the algorithms think we want. His book points out that the invisible filtering of the web is a bad thing, but only because people don’t know it’s happening.
Assess: Batorski has some good points, and he sort of hits on my topic of gatekeepers, but at some parts of this article I couldn’t really relate it back to what I wanted to focus on and I couldn’t connect a lot of what he stated to my viewpoints.
Reflect: This articles gives very good information on the topic of attention but for my paper it won’t be useful.
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Michelle Sceglio
Hugh Culik
ENGL 1190
2-16-13
Scholarly Source
http://www.ojs.academypublisher.com/index.php/jetwi/article/view/jetwi0403285296
Summary: Basically, this article focuses mainly on the personalization of the internet, but it states that personalization is not necessarily a bad thing. It says that without personalization we would be overwhelmed with things that are completely irrelevant to what we are trying to search.
Assess: Both Malik and Fyfe make really good points but I agree to disagree on some parts. Saying that personalization of the internet isn’t a troublesome thing is the understatement of the year. I would see their point if more people knew about the filtering of the web, but the first I have ever heard about it was last semester and it amazed me.
Reflect: I wouldn’t exactly cite this document in my paper but if gave me a new vantage point to look into. It forced me to somewhat see the other side of filter bubbles even though I already made up my mind on how I felt about them.
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Michelle Sceglio
Hugh Culik
ENGL 1190
2-16-13
Scholarly Source
http://philpapers.org/archive/MILJBI.1.pdf
Summary: Just like my first article, this document touches on the dangers of having these filter among our web browsers. This article, though, goes one step further and states that among the filters can also be biased or incompleteness in he texts. So, your past searches can rain havoc on your current of future searches, because the internet only picks up on what it “thinks” you’re interested in.
Assess: The article touches on biased which is what I’m focusing on but yet again there was a new viewpoint to think about and that was the fact that not only can there be biased among people and cultures but also in the digital world and within the computers we use.
Reflect: I will definitely use this in my essay because it touches on the key points that I wish to discuss in my paper.
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Annotated Bibliographies
Christopher Koehler
Professor Culik
English 1190, Section C1603
February 14, 2013
Search Engine: Google Scholar
Search Terms: Search Engines Filter Bubbles
Jon Dron Terry Anderson, In with the in crowds, Institution of Education: London, Dec 2011)
http://blogs.ubc.ca/newliteracies/files/2011/12/Dron.pdf
Summary: The article opens with a summary of ways to research information in the past. The methods used before the internet such as the systems implemented by libraries and universities. The author talks about the advancement of those systems. The article then begins a new section called “Then the Internet Happened”. This section covers the early history of the internet and search engines, explaining how thousands of people worked to try and keep up with the constant influx of new information during the 1990s. The author then introduces Google during the late 90s. The author then goes on to state the effectiveness of its collaborative data and its introduction of algorithms to track and regulate the data. The article goes on to explain the introduction of social networks and how they contribute to algorithms and search engines with the data collected from their users. The article goes on to state how social networks resemble traditional forms of information transfer used before the internet. The article says how many search engines are not geared for learning, but for preferences. It goes on to say that the search engines and filter bubbles can provide information, but they cannot be used for learning because learning requires the provocation of thought. The article concludes by saying search engines are prominent in the future but also require much organization and can be troubled in the future.
Assess: The article does a very good job of laying down a guide to the origins of search engines. The author clearly shows why search engines need algorithms and how they were implemented and used. The article does a good job of setting a foundation for a good paper. The article is useful to clarify what algorithms are and why they are needed.
Reflect: The article was very helpful in helping me grasp the idea of algorithms and filter bubbles more. The article has helped me realized the origin of algorithms and the need for them. The article does not try to convey any opinion, it is just used to inform, which helps not form opinions for the paper.
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Christopher Koehler
Professor Culik
English 1190, Section C1603
February 14, 2013
Search Engine: Google Scholar
Search Terms: filter bubbles internet
(D.J. von Schoultz J. van Niekerk, You according to Google: the effects of filter bubbling,
Nov 2012 http://www.zaw3.co.za/index.php/ZA-WWW/2012/paper/viewFile/574/170)
Summary: The article is broken up into 8 sections opening with 1 being the introduction. The introduction brings up what the internet can be used for. The article continues to say that the internet may also cause tunnel vision for its users due to filter bubbles. The authors also use quotes and information from Eli Parisers works. Search engines are the civil engineers of the internet guiding users to and from information. The term, filter bubbles created by Eli Pariser originated when Google introduced 57 aspects of personalizing searches. The effects of filter bubbles are currently unknown right now despite the hype surrounding them. The article then moves on to section 2 Personalization. This section states that the internet is the largest source of knowledge ever. Personalized web pages are a bi-product of the content on the Web and stemmed from a need to improve the relevance of material presented to Internet users. The process of personalization is broken up into 4 stages, the collection of user data, pre-processing of data, analysis of collected data, and the final decision/recommendations based on collected data. The article states that this personalization has become necessity not an option. Section 3 is the Negative Effects of Data Personalization. The key excerpt of the section states “Due to the exponential expanse of the content on the World Wide Web search engines have become vital in traversing through the seemingly limitless matrix of data. Search engines have become the window to the world of Internet users and the gate keepers of our knowledge.” It also says that search engines base the search results off of the users collected data, in result presenting data that is supposedly relevant to the user. Our search results are subject to our search history and based off of deductions of our needs and wants. Section 4 gives a whole description of Google and how it works, far to detailed to breakdown, but one should defiantly look at the section for a better understanding. The sections 5, 6 and 7 are a test conducted on 2 different computers to determine the differences in search results between 2 different individuals; the section contains very useful information and should be looked at. Section 8 is a conclusion. The sections key excerpt is “Web personalization should not be considered a threat to our current state of knowledge gathering. Whether this is due to the low internet usage rates in Africa or the low levels of innate Web use is not clear. The effect of personalization might still be noticeable on other websites, for example online news portals, but direct Google search results seem to be unaffected.”
Assess: The article is very useful in explaining filter bubbles and what they are and what they may cause. The article brings up many valid points about the results of personalization. The article can be used to help figure out a prospectus for the paper because of it expansive coverage of the issue.
Reflect: This article is key to my understanding of filter bubbles and has helped me develop a firm grasp on the assignment at hand. The article will defiantly be used in my paper, and will help me develop my prospectus. The article has informed me on the topic of filter bubbles and has helped me understand the effects of them.
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Christopher Koehler
Professor Culik
English 1190, Section C1603
February 14, 2013
Search Engine: Google Scholar
Search Terms: Search Engines Filter Bubbles
Nichola Stott, You Are Not in Control, March 2012
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2159250/You-Are-Not-in-Control-RIMC-2012-Highlights
Summary: The article is a summary of the main points from the Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference (RIMC). The article opens with a summary of the president of Iceland’s speech. The speech was about how powerful the internet is, and how it was used to make a political movement and remove control from the few powerful leaders and media owners. The article then goes straight into covering what Eli Pariser said during the conference. Pariser covers the concern of personalized behavioral algorithms and the inherent dangers of content and behavioral clustering, in how this can lead to ring-fenced views of the world. It covered Pariser’s experience on Facebook, and how he was only seeing post relating to his political view. During the convention Pariser brought up 3 main concerns with personalized searches. The first being distortion. Search engines can control what the user sees and will show information satisfying the user’s opinion. The second being physiological obesity, the issue of viewers only wanting to see junk information. The theory is demonstrated by Netflix and the observation of the viewers wanting to watch informative movies, but cannot resist ignoring those informative videos for blockbuster films. The third topic is a matter of control. Which can be summarized from the following excerpt from the article, “The new gatekeepers are not the editors or media owners of the twentieth century, nor are “the people”, rather it is code. And code doesn't have a sense of civic ethics…”. The 3rd point of Pariser was the final piece of meaningful information in the article, and the article then ended with a brief conclusion of the conference.
Assess: The article is a summary of the RIMC conference. The article summarizes the conference very clearly and well. The article hits upon all the major concerns with filter bubbles and personalization.
Reflect: The article was very informative and helped me finalize my prospectus for the paper. It was very helpful in tying together all of the other reading, in class and from research. I found it very useful in completing my understanding of the subject.
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Brian Sanchez
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190
February 18, 2013
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w7105jp#page-1
Search Engine: Scholar.google.com
Search Words: Filter Bubble
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Summarize: The beginning to the end of the article Eli talked about what the web is keeping from us and not telling us information that we would like to know. He said since we navigate the web we are the one doing the searching but reality is that the web is navigating us and doing research on our lives. They profile all of us every time we use the computer,for every search engine we use (Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc). Last they get into how if we put our information on the web behind it all it seems to be mishandled by the engineers. When this happens this is when we see credit card fraud or money being stolen from our personal accounts.
Assess: The Filter Bubble has many problems just how the peer review system had and they might be the same problems but they both affect different things. Peer review affects things being published and what we read because we could be reading the wrong information. Filter Bubble are things that happen over the web like the information we are reading are personalized to things that we search and once we search them once they will constantly show up time and time again. Eli made strong points how the web navigates us we are no longer navigating it, the web digs into our lives and finds out personal information to make it stronger for themselves.
Reflect: Reading this article I’ve learned many things that happen over the web, and other things like how people find out our information. We could of put our information on a website 5 years ago and we wonder how people find out things they will look 5 years back and pull our information right up. Throughout the article Eli brings up strong points how it may never be safe over the web with our information, and how we are tracked every time we use the web to find things out. It was interesting due to the fact that if people found out this information they may not or never again use the web to purchase items or even to google something because they know their emails will be blown up with spam and ads from that company just because they were on the website earlier that day.
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Brian Sanchez
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/05/12/the-filter-bubble/
Search Engine: Google.com
Search Words: Filter Bubble Today
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Summarize: Explains to me that the web is customized by our browsing history, our social graph, and many other factors. Facts google takes into their outlooking about us is that they take 57 individual data points before serving us the results. Filter-Bubble defined in their words invisible algorithmic editing on the web. Algorithms give us things they think we want to see and less of what we should see. Then she gets into how much we should really be worrying about Google, meaning with all our information our there Google will not care about your information and post it all over the web and that leaves it free for other people to find it out and have full access to your things. They say our filter bubble is a comfortable place since its our own facts and information that we are looking at and like. If someone searches somethings and someone does the same search they will most likely come up with the different results for everything.
Assess: Reading this explains more that nothing is safe anymore and may never be. Might be creepy to people the web is customized to things we have searched before and what we are searching today, how they are 3 steps ahead of us for everything. What google puts into our personal data is incredible because they go so in depth that it could be a crime. They say it could be a comfortable place or is a one but the only thing people see it as is a uncomfortable place and a place with lots of problems. People telling them to get a life.
Reflect: I’ve learned that people dive way to much into our personal lives and it could help us or put us into a hole. The information they are putting out could be hurtful and could effect us for a job down the road. Something that is in the past can come right back and just because of what the web is telling people. Why can’t they give everyone the same results instead of making people having an easy time and others having a difficult time. This has shown me that this websites and their workers do not care about your personal life and will turn your future into your past.
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Brian Sanchez
http://hastac.org/blogs/veraliaouiuc/2013/01/25/filter-bubble-and-digital-democracy
Search Engine: Google.com
Search Words: Filter Bubble in Future
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Summarize: Through this whole article they are comparing the Filter Bubble to our Digital Democracy. They ask whether internet is doing good to democracy? They try to answer that question throughout the article but seems to find not the right answer, what they do come up with is that they have lots of confirmation bias or selective exposure. Some webs may not know what bias info to give us to make it sound better and give us better things what we are looking for. They said it can be hard for algorithms to provide information that is relevant and as focused as possible. Their motto is how do we make the users happy.
Assess: Democracy over the web is very true and real due to the fact that the filter bubble can cause crimes in people’s lives. Their motto could be make the users happy but in reality how many users are they really making happy, they are making people suffer, and making them in their past forever. If the algorithms are having a hard time finding things and giving us the right information what makes these websites think the people that are searching will ever find the right information.
Reflect: This article gave me more facts about algorithms and what they do to make the websites right and more efficient for everyone. What I’m having a hard time seeing is that if the algorithms are having a hard time what makes these websites think we will ever find the right answer. Then they get into Democracy part of the web, in reality it could be a jail because of what they find and what they are putting out for other people to say. The web is like its own law and you have to follow their rules.
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Sidorela Arapi
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190
2/17/2013
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w7105jp#page-2
Search Engine: Schoolar.google.com
Search Words: The filter bubble
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Summarize: It starts out talking about how Mark Waiser was the first to point out how the most profound technologies are the ones that disappear. Waisers article did not anticipate the impact of search engines. After him Eli Pariser about filter bubbles. He talks about how all these search engines and social media sites hide the rest of the information from all the viewers. The bubble is created to give us an illusion of making the right research. It makes us think that that’s the only information out there for us to know. He also lets us know that filter bubbles is not strictly scholarly work. It does benefit all the Google engineers and human computer interactive scholars.
Assess: I really like a lot of the Pariser work because he knows how to make you understand what he is talking about. In this article he lays out what Filter bubbles really are. He lets us know what they are connected to and how they effect us. He does not just give us the information right away but he kind of of gives us the history of it and how it first started out.
Reflection: The way this article helps me is by answering all the questions that I had. It gave me a better understanding on what filter bubble means. What it is about and how it works. It also makes me understand how it kind of connects to peer review. I think Pariser is great writer and very helpful.
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Sidorela Arapi
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190
2/17/2013
http://www.uclouvain.be/395463.html
Search Engine: Schoolar.google.com
Search Words: The filter bubble
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Summarize: In 2009 Google started to customize each research result. Google tries to predict what we are most likely to click on instead of giving us a much broadly popular result. Pariser does not believe that good should do that. He uncovers how this threatens to control how we consume and share information as a society and he reveals what we can do about it. The filters are sweeping the web and creating individual universes of information for each of us. We will never know what is being hidden from us. Filter bubbles reveals how personalization undermines the internets original purpose as an open platform for the spread of ideas.
Assess: This article focuses a lot on what the social websites are hiding from us. It talks a lot about how good has changed over time and what it is doing to us. I really like this article because of the fact that it tells us that Pariser has a plan to stop all this. To help us get a hold of a much broader research. It also focuses a lot on how we will never know a lot of the information that is being hidden from us.
Reflection: This article helped me by making me realize that there is a lot of more information out there and what we are being introduced to. It helps me know how Google really works and what its doing for us. We as a society should not be kept from any information that is out there. We should all be able to see the same thing.
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Sidorela Arapi
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190
2/17/2013
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/charleston/2011/EndUsers/11/
Search Engine: Schoolar.google.com
Search Words: The filter bubble
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Summarize: Web-scale discovery has arrived. Hundreds of millions articles and books are accessible at lighting speed of a single search box. As the size of the index grows so does the size of challenge of relevancy. As years have passed by Google has changed a lot, it gives us over 200 different signals to determine what search results we see. It is all a growing number of signals on what the Google knows about you and your web history. The challenge of providing relevant academic research results in a web-scale world where students increasingly expect the kind of personalization sometimes at odds with academia's adherence to privacy and intellectual freedom.
Assess: This article is a lot like the other one, it focuses a lot on Google and gives us more information in it. The only new information I got out of this article was on why Google does keep information from us. It tells us that over the years Google has become much bigger and holds a lot of websites on it. The fact that it does have more research in it, it is harder for it to give us all of the research.
Reflection: This article help me by giving me more information on why filter bubble was created. It gives me more information on why and how Google has changed so much over time. Before reading this article I never really realized how long Google has been around and how much it has changed. It helped me understand why we don’t get all of the research that we are supposed to get.
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Bianca Vulcu
Professor Culik
English 1190
2/17/13
Von Schoultz, Dean, and Johan Van Niekerk. "You, according to Google-the effects of filter bubbling." Cape Peninsula University of Technology. (2012): n. page. Print. <http://www.zaw3.co.za/index.php/ZA-WWW/2012/paper/view/574>.
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Summary: This article opens up by saying “The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.” It also says that the Internet originally had a purpose of distributing information in order to protect it against loss. The Internet now became a catalyst for knowledge sharing. This article basically touches on the fact that when we use search engines, the feedback we get is limited. Algorithms through filter bubbles are used to determine what the users perception and interest are and make the web personalized. For instance, Google uses 57 types of feed back to determine how to personalize the web for every individual.
Assess: I really liked this article. It was well thought out and put together and informative. This article just like others cited others opinions and research which gives it a dynamic. Because there is so much information that backs up the opinions, I find this source to be reliable. However, I do find this article to be biased considering it talks about negatives of filter bubbles and how it control.
Reflect: I found this source to be very useful for my paper. It allows me to get views on filter bubbles through several individuals. It also goes in depth using Google search engine as an example of how personalized the web is. This article will help shape my paper and lead me towards talking about how filter bubbles are a main control.
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Bianca Vulcu
Professor Culik
English 1190
2/17/13
Wakefield, Jane. "When algorithms control the world." BBC News. (2011): n. page. Print. <http://www.comp.dit.ie/BTierney/BSI/When Algorithms Control the World.pdf>.
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Summary: This article starts off by saying that the internet keeps advancing and is getting "smarter". Algorithms are the brain behind the internet and sites. Wakefield states Slavin who states " We've rendered something illegible. And we've lost the sense of what is actually happening in this world we've made." We are losing sense of reality and put full trust and decision making into the internet these days. Wakefield also goes on saying that even though algorithms may be cleverer than humans, they still do not have our sense of perspective.
Assess: I really enjoyed this article because it had so many facts stated by different individuals. It was very informative and well written. This article allowed me to view algorithms beyond just its surface. The article is definitely reliable because of how Wakefield backed up his thoughts with others statements. It also has dimension to it. It allows me to see the pro and cons of algorithms. How it makes researching a lot easier and faster for us, but in a sense it controls our thoughts and limits us.
Reflect: I thought this article was really useful. I could fit this article into my paper very easily and it will bring my paper a more dynamic view. This article changed the way I viewed algorithms. It showed me how helpful and how disadvantaging algorithms can be for us. Also the fact that Wakefield cites others in his article allows me to get others views and perspective on algorithms. This allows me to retrieve more information.
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Bianca Vulcu
Professor Culik
English 1190
2/17/13
Detweiler, Christian, Alina Pommeranz, and Jeroen van den Hoven. "Values in the filter bubble Ethics of Personalization in Cloud Computing." Delt University of Technology. (2011): n. page. Print. <http://mmi.tudelft.nl/ValuesInDesign11/proceedings.pdf
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Summary: This article mainly talks about emerging web technologies like Cloud Computing. It states that it allows the users to outsource their computing and storage needs to data centers that are managed by a third party. The article says that there is a shift of control from users to software providers. Cloud Computing can actually change features and algorithms without the control of the user. The article also goes on to say how the web is becoming more of a personalized web. The web adapts to the users goals, needs, interests, and preferences. The system basically predicts what information would be useful without the control of the user.
Assess: I really liked this article. It has citations from several other articles and videos which gives it more of a dynamic. The information is reliable which makes my work a little easier. The source seems to be biased considering it states a lot of negatives of algorithms. This source allows me to see how algorithms work though a specific web technology which is Cloud Computing.
Reflect: After reading this article, I can use a lot of the information that was given. This article helps shape my argument because it gives light to how algorithms are taking control. We as users do not have a say which is not necessarily a good thing because it limits our search. This article like others was useful. It will help shape my paper because of how in depth the article went into algorithms.
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Alexis Bowman
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1603
18 February 2013
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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/10/the-filter-bubble/181427/
Parramore, Lynn. "The liter Bubble ." The Atlantic . N.p., 10 Oct. 2010. Web. 17 Feb. 2013.
Searched: Filter Bubbles
Summary: Google, Yahoo, Facebook other top information sites have been filtering the information we search sense roughly 2009 personalizing our searches with algorithms, to what they believe fits our past searches places us in these so called “filter bubbles”. In other words my search results may be different than the search results of my friends because we have different search history, and algorithms similar to a computer takes that into account when we search new things and giving us results.
Assess: In this article it was important of getting an understanding of exactly where the idea of “filter bubbles” is coming from, and exactly what it means. The article was important of also understanding that the filter bubble was not only happening in just one place but also in numerous places, and that it is not that new of a concept occurring.
Reflect: The article really helped me understand filter bubbles more, it explained them in a more simple way than Eli Pariser had done in his video of filter bubbles even though it is an interview with him it is a more shorten explanation of the concept, making it easier to understand.
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Alexis Bowman
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1603
18 February 2013
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shira-lazar/algorithms-and-the-filter_b_869473.html
Search: Algorithms and the filter bubble
Lazar, Shira. "Algorithms and the Filter Bubble Running your Online Experience ." TECH. N.p., 1 June 2011. Web. 17 Feb. 2013.
Summary: The original intention of the Internet was to “allow us to have full access to the worlds information.” Now with filter bubbles and algorithms they are taking that and given us less access to the worlds information because the information we receive is personalized by everything we search not given us everything possible that’s out there on a certain topic.
Assess: I think this article is important because it shows what Internet was set out to be and how it’s changing the web completely also how some don’t mind the change but others mind it significantly.
Reflect: I found this article helpful towards my paper because again its showing how there is a similarity between peer review and filter bubbles because of editing information out to what they believe is relevant to us, both peer review and filter bubbles do so.
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Alexis Bowman
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1603
18 February 2013
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Search: Filter Bubbles
Ludwig, Amber. "Google Personalization on Your Search Results Plus How to Turn It Off ." NGNG Enterprise . N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2013.
Summary: Personalized search results were originally intended to provide you with search results with your favorite products that you always use and the best rates and the filter bubble have grown sense then. Being signed into your Google account provides search history results, which then gives you personalized search results. If you are logged out the personalized search results lessen
Assess: I think this article is important because it shows that certain media users are not aware that even though they are not still logged in that algorithms are still working and reading your locations and your search results from a computer. It shows that people are almost unaware of entirely what is going on.
Reflect: I think this was important because it helped me show that although what is right in front of us may not be the entire truth and that there could always be more to what we are being told, or maybe not understanding.
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Stephanie Maurizio
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190 C1608
February 13, 2013
Scholar Source
Choudhury, A. (2002) Fast machine learning algorithms for large data. University of Southampton, School of Engineering Sciences, Doctoral Thesis. < http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/45907/ >
Search engine: Scholar.google.com
Search term: "algorithms" in today’s world
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Summary: This is an article on most of the benefits of algorithms. It said how they are put in place to solve large problems of data. In a way they organize it. “In particular, it considers solving the three basic tasks, viz, classification, regression, and density approximation” (Choudhury). It also mentions how they are “greedy” systems, but it shows more pros of them than cons. It also says how algorithms use methods to make things easier for the user. It is mainly focused on large data and how to organize it.
Assessment: This a good article because it touches on the importance of algorithms and large data. It shows why we truly need them in our world. This information helps me to see the positive side of algorithms. It shows what their functions are and the good.
Reflection: This is really helpful for my wiring. I tend to focus on the negative affects of algorithms and it helps me see the good. I needed an article to give me the positive side. I don’t want to make my paper so one sided. This may fit into my argument and make me change my claim a little. It fits in because it shows how algorithms have power and what it is used for.
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Stephanie Maurizio
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190 C1608
February 14, 2013
Popular Source
Guest Author. “Social networks, the filter bubble and the ‘media of I’.” (2012). < http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-11/12/media-of-i >
Search engine: Google.com
Search term: filter bubble
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Summary: This article mainly talks about our dependence on online communication. How we use this to do every things. It says how the internet or web is the most important way for us to be heard and get our word out to others. It also talks about how we use the social media to tell our stories. How we have been doing this for years. We all want to share to our communities. Assessment: This is very interesting article because it touches on how we have essentially given over our power to the web. We use it to let our voice be heard. In a way it tends to control us, because this is what we are reliant on now. We have completely made this the way to communicate.
Reflections: Looking at this article gives a lot of ideas to write about for my paper. I can see that our dependence on the web is more than we tend to realize. It is truly how we communicate now. This article will help me create new ideas and out looks on how dependent we are on it. How it has a control over us because of our dependence.
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Stephanie Maurizio
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190 C1608
February 14, 2013
Popular Source
Last modified February 2, 201. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble>
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Summary: This article mainly talks about what filter bubbles are. It mentions the definitions as well as explanations. It says how from being in these filter bubbles we miss out on a lot. Saying that the exposure to opposing viewpoints is what we need to see. It also goes on to mention a lot that an economist, Eli Pariser, has said. He seems to really have an influence on this topic and what people think about it.
Assessment: I found this source very informative. I need a source that really broke down what filter bubbles were. I think the authors did a great job of explaining. I feel it is a little more opinion based though.
Reflection: I find this article very helpful because of the definitions. I like that wikipedia comes out and explains before telling more. It gave me a clear sense of filter bubbles and what they are. It gave me a more clear outlook on the topic.
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William Bennett
Professor Culik
English 1190
17 February 2013
“Filter Bubbles = Sheltered Lives?” Gez Hebburn (2012) http://www.freshegg.com/blog/personalised-localised-filter-bubbles-sheltered-lives-internet-ghettos_7375
Summary:
The beginning of this article gives an excellent description of what a filter bubble is and compares to that of a double-edged sword; “we get more precise targeting, but lose predictable global search results on consumer’s screens.” The article then gives two opposing view on why filter bubbles can be good or bad. The good part of the filter bubble is that they can help people sift through the vast amount of information that is found on the internet; while the bad part of a filter bubble is that it can hold information away from you so that you are not able to see information that doesn’t agree with your previous searches. In the middle of the article, it tells us how to search on the internet without being in a filter bubble. The end of the article summarizes the up-coming problems with the filter bubble.
Assess:
I found this article to be enlightening on the different perspectives of the filter bubble. Although some of the information in the article is very basic and bland, it still gives insight on other views and aspects that others have.
Reflect:
This article would definitely be one that I would consider for writing a paper. The fact that the article gives different insight would help with the “what they say” part of my paper and I thought that analogies and facts they use would useful and easily placed within my paper.
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William Bennett
Professor Culik
English 1190
17 February 2013
Tiffany O'Callaghan (June 2011)
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/06/why-facebook-have-an-important-button.html
Summary:
This article contains ten commonly asked questions that are related to filter bubbles. The questions range from simple questions, to rather complex ones. Like many articles on filter bubbles, this one repeats the information stated by Eli Pariser. Many questions in the article pertain to the filter bubble within Facebook and gives a detailed description of what exactly is being kept away from you and what is being shown to you.
Assess:
I found that this article was rather informing to me and answered a few of the questions that I had about filter bubbles. The questions answered were, for the most part, answered in full using current day examples and scenarios, but I did find one or two of the questions to be not useful and more or less random.
Reflect:
I think that this article could possibly help people who have little knowledge on filter bubbles, and people that want advanced knowledge on filter bubbles; this all depends on what questions you decide to read. I feel that a few of these questions could help someone brainstorm ideas that can later be used to produce a claim.
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William Bennett
Professor Culik
English 1190
17 February 2013
“You Are Not in Control – #RIMC 2012 Highlights” by Nichola Stott, (March 14, 2012)
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2159250/You-Are-Not-in-Control-RIMC-2012-Highlights
Summary:
The articles off by giving a real life story of how the president of Iceland gave a speech called “You are not in Control” which was going to talk about his experience with media today. The article initially goes over pariser’s findings about search bubbles and points out and explains three key points being distortion, psychological obesity, and a matter of control. The article concludes by explaining how the president of Iceland and Pariser related in there text.
Assess:
I found this article to be informing when it came to Pariser’s speech because it analyzed the speech and then categorized them followed by description of the category. The conclusion of the article was rather interesting because it explained thee similarities that the president had and what pariser had to say; these similarities of course being around the concept of the filter bubble.
Reflect:
I think that this article should be one I briefly look over before I write my paper because it points out key aspects within Pariser’s speech and gives the example with the president of Iceland. I did have to do some filtering myself though while reading this article because I found that the information was rather vague and was information that was obvious.
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Bridget Prohaszka
2/18/3
Citation:
Pariser, Eli. The Filter Bubble. N.p.: The Penguin Press, 2011. 1-11. Web. 18 Feb. 2013. <http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=wcalrOI1YbQC&oi=fnd&pg=PT26&dq=filter+bubble&ots=I0g2wuOEFq&sig=k8NIDbqI1sP5rfolaSMHfsbwcDg
Summary: The internet is catering more and more to our needs and we have seen how it directs us to certain types of information. As humans we spend half our time on the internet and only get so much from it. The filter bubble gives us a broad aorta of information to choose from. Eli Priaser writes a book explains the problems with it and really investigates what it is that is going on.
Assessment: Eli Praiser says “Only the news that fits you we print”. This explains so much, the internet only gives people what they want to hear and it satisfies them. They are happy with what they are given and don’t question anything.
Reflection: I think this article explains how the problems come about within the filter bubble and how humans take on the information given to them. This will help my paper because I see many problems with the internet.
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Bridget Prohaszka
2/18/13
Citation:Bozdag, Engin, and Job Timmermans. Values in the filter bubble Ethics of Personalization Algorithms in Cloud Computing. GA: Delft University of Technology, 2011. 7-12. Delft University of Technology. Web. 18 Feb. 2013.<http://mmi.tudelft.nl/ValuesInDesign11/proceedings.pdf#page=7>
Summary: Facebook and all other public sites are used to prevent information overload. All activity used on these sites are recorded and used later to personalize the sites according to the persons previous clicks and likes. It’s called web personalization and it messes with the structure of a web sites in order to make users happy with it as it progresses. Some people enjoy keeping up with the technology but others don’t move as fast and may still be getting the hang of the last updated version.
Assessment: They talk about “Cloud Computing” which is giving out information to one source in which have third parties therefore giving their information to several other sites that are able to get their hands on it. Now other sites are able to give you pops up about their site and with just a simple click you can start another site for yourself.
Reflection: The internet takes advantage of personalizing whatever it can when it has the chance. Thought it can be a problem and a convenience, it’s hard to tell. All sites on the internet, are trying so hard to customize for their users. Especially on Google the information is not all there for their users and that is not good.
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Bridget Prohaszka
2/18/13
Citation:
Burke, Robin. Integrating Knowledge-based and Collaborative-filtering Recommender Systems. N.p.: AAAI Technical Report WS-99-01., 1999. 69-70. University of California. Web. 18 Feb. 2013. <http://www.aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/1999/WS-99-01/WS99-01-011.pdf>.
Summary: The system called collaborative filtering is how companies find out how their customers spend their money and find where they are most apt to spend it. It all depends on the patterns of previous purchases and what they have commented on or not commented on. The system pays attention to detail and predicts the outcome of what will be purchased.
Assessment: The article refers to buying a car, and how the business pays attention to what is most important to their customer base. Asking questions like, “Do people look more for fuel economy” or “Are people more interested in the looks of car” help the business know what their customers want. By knowing what people are looking for the business knows what to show off more and what to highlight more when trying to sell. That corresponds into the filter bubble in a way because how the business shows us what cars we would like the internet shows us what information we like.
Reflection: I really like the examples I found in the article and it makes a lot of sense. The internet does give us exactly what we want because they are constantly watching what we like and comment on. Web pages are filled with whatever you look up the most.
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Maximillian Cairo
Professor Culik
English 1190
02/16/13
Filter Bubbles
Summarize:
Algorithms play an increasingly important role in selecting what info is considered most relevant to us, which is a crucial feature of our participation in public life. Algorithms, also known as “filter bubbles” are supposed to take note of all the items the user has been searching and link them in a manor that is supposed to help by shortening searches, and to bring them to a more clear and specific topic depending on what is being searched. Pariser’s example of Algorithms is very good. He says that while looking at his Facebook feed wall, he had clicked more of his liberal friends links than his conservative friends. Without even thinking about it his friends were edited out.
Assess:
Pariser is a very good source to use. Him having several articles open on filter bubbles gives him a good background check. Filter bubbles are the most common and closely linked words typed in on Facebook, Netflix, Google, and basically anything else that links to the internet. The problem with filter bubbles is the fact that not everybody is receiving the same knowledge even though the same exact terms were searches. Like Pariser’s example with typing in “Eqypt” in google.
Reflect:
Filter Bubbles deffinately do help. They help get rid of a countless amount of links that are not very specific to the search. Filter Bubbles could lead to a cycle of repeat, by constantly receiving the same information, never grasping onto new information because of the bubbles. Overall by with what this article had to say, I would state that Filter Bubbles seem to make things a little better for you personally, on what interests you like, but fail in the sense to share new information.
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Maximillian Cairo
Professor Culik
English 1190
02/16/13
Search: Google Scholar: Eli Pariser Filter Bubble 2010 or later
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-859/paper3.pdf
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Summarize:
More than 20 years after Weiser’s publication, Eli Pariser’s The Filter Bubble examines the unintended consequences of web personalization: technologies which, while not disappearing into society’s fabric, are growing Ubiquitous, therefore less visible in our critical evaluation of information. The Filter Bubbles are constantly gaining information and being put to use.
Assess:
The web we navigate, Navigates us. Google tracks our searches, engineering them, which are then tailored to our needs. Facebook aggregates our likes, login times, and other metrics to target advertisement. Amazon has built a digital empire on its alchemy of stored consumer behavior, purchase correlation research, and predictive marketing.
Reflect:
It was pretty interesting finding how some of these everyday sites that I have been using, finds our information. And how it decides what we should look at. But also what we should not look at. I believe that these engines probably do make it easier for recieveing information on a topic but the information being left out is the problem. A lot of people probably search in a topic and miss a big portion of it because of filtering.
Search: “Link from Professor”
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w7105jp#page-2
Samuels, Mark G. "InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies." Review: The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You by Eli Pariser [eScholarship].
InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UC Los Angeles, 2012. Web. 16 Feb. 2013.
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Maximillian Cairo
Professor Culik
English 1190
02/16/13
Annotated Bibliography
Summarize:
The internet allows items to be searched within several seconds at lightning speed with more than a hundred thousand links to that search. There is a catch, with a constantly growing population of information also decreases the chance of receiving relevant information. According to Eli Pariser, author of "The filter bubble: what the internet is hiding from you" (Penguin, 2011), a growing number of these signals are based on what Google knows about you,
Which can generally be found in the search history.
Assess:
This website was helpful with showing why irrelevant work shows up on Google. For somebody like myself, trying to understand a little more on why we get irrelevant sources and information, this could end up being a very helpful source of information. A lot of the articles I have read for Filter Bubbles include something about Eli Pariser. Eli Pariser wrote an article on Filter Bubbles that has got an incredible amount of views. The article was of great help to me and many others for the reason of which there is a clear understanding to what filter bubbles are.
Reflect:
For the article being as short as it is, it definitely shares a bunch of information. I had no idea why people are coming up with different information and links when the same words are being searched. The reason for this is the constantly expanding library of information that is on the internet. Also, algorithms for search engines and some web-sites like Facebook, or Netflix, filter common searches, hoping to find a link that you are more likely to be interested in. This could end up being an issue because you could be gathering irrelevant information. When in reality the best information is just not appearing on the page.
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Bridget Prohaszka
2/18/13
Citation:
Pariser, Eli. The filter bubble: What the internet is hiding from you. N.p.: Penguin Press, 2011. 1-3. Web. 18 Feb. 2013. <http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w7105jp>.
Summary: The filter bubble has successfully gotten a hold of all the information it needs to pinpoint exactly what their customers want and like. The internet is able to put together the right advertisements for the right people knowing they have a higher chance they will make profits off it. The use of face book is to make enjoyable to experience for its users but the marketing side has caught on and is now making profits off it.
Assessment: Most of the users are teenagers and computer savy but even they are losing sight of their privacy. The interactions between humans and computers are becoming less beneficial. It seems as if the bubble is doing too much that is becomes a bad thing.
Reflection: This is going to help my paper because it proves that the filter bubble personalizes too much that people don’t like it and lose their sense of privacy. Information is given out to whoever and advertisements are all based on what you previous liked before.
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Rachel Wyne
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190-C1603
February 18, 2013
Popular Article
Search engine: Google
Search term: Filter bubble
Annotated Bibliography #4
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2011/05/filter-bubbles.html
Hossenfelder, Sabrine. "Filter Bubbles." Back Reaction (2011). Web. 18 Feb. 2013.
Summary: This article talks about what filter bubbles really are and how they work. It discusses their advantages and disadvantages as well. She also makes the strong point that information is being personalized and no one seems to be questioning it. Which she seems to find very odd. She also relates back to Eli Pariser and the points he made in his video on the topic.
Asses: I like this article overall, it was very straightforward and told me what I needed to know about filter bubbles. It is not complex and it does not go into great detail. It is a good article if you just want a basic understanding.
Reflect: If I use this article, it would be used as a popular source. She says in the article that it is a blog and I noticed that there was no work-cited page. It is still a helpful article, but I would not consider it to be scholarly by any means. If I use it, it would be used in my paragraph that talks about the process of filter bubbles and what they are.
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Anne Marie Beindit
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190-c1608
18 January 2013
Annotated Bibliographies
Pariser, Eli. The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think. London: The Penguin Press, 2011. N. pag. New York Times. Web. 13 Feb. 2013.<http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=wcalrOI1YbQC&oi=fnd&pg=PT26&dq=filter+bubble+peer+review&ots=I0g1CsLyIr&sig=o5N5-sBngP70TWh2JrtNpPnAlvo>.
Search Engine: scholar.google.com
Search Words: filter bubble
Summary: Filter bubbles are affecting what we read and how we think. The act of the filter bubble has become so personalized that we are usually opt out of the option of finding new and different information than we expect. Eli Pariser explains how personalization from the filter bubble has become a central issue in contemporary culture. We are forced to see only what is filtered to us and personalized to fit our interests and likes. What about the information that interests us that we cannot seen or is not shown?
Assessment: Filter bubbles seem to have been created to help personalize and better fit ones interests; however they are leaving out information that may be valuable to someone. The goal of this source is to bring awareness of the filter bubble to mind and show the negatives it has in the common social sphere. There is much attention brought to mind that the filter bubble is not optional in that we cannot simply turn it off. This book brings awareness that we are never alone when searching the internet, whether we like it or not.
Reflection: I find from what I read of this book by Eli Pariser very interesting. It is a top seller in that many people find this personalization without permission very important in the online world. This book has a lot of good sources and references that prove it is true. To describe the filter bubble’s faults and misconceptions, this book helps with examples and true stories.
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Anne Marie Beindit
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190-c1608
18 January 2013
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/charleston/2011/EndUsers/11/
Davis, Corey. Relevancy Redacted: Web-Scale Discovery and the “Filter Bubble”. Charleston: Charleston Library Conference, 2012. Purdue University. Web. 13 Feb. 2013. <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/charleston/2011/EndUsers/11/>.
Search Engine: scholar.google.com
Search Words: filter bubble
Summary: Davis Corey describes the filter bubble in terms of how it has changed and grown to over a trillion pages. Discussed is what is described as filter bubbles producing results that are "pleasant and familiar and confirms your beliefs". The development of the filter bubble and the evolution in which it has formed now to shape internet users lives. We want relevant research and expect to it so easily, but privacy and academic freedom do not always allow this or for us to see information which may be very helpful.
Assessment: Academic studies are being changed and possibly held back from the filter bubble. Certain information not being visible to an internet user can change a lot of opinions about a subject. What is not shown will not be known and could very well be important information needed for excellent research.
Reflection: from reading this abstract it is clear to me that as the internet has grown throughout time, the filter bubble has become more and more personalized. Although this seems convenient from some points of view, it is not always the best solution when we are striving to find new and perhaps odd information that may be withheld from the search. Who is in control of this narrowing filter bubble system and what makes them know internet users so well from the brower used, location, and other factors?
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Anne Marie Beindit
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190-c1608
18 January 2013
http://www-new1.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/Documents/resources/publications/Paper040201.pdf
Johnson, Robin, David Edmundson-Bird, and Brendan J. Keegan. Digital literacy: digital maturity or digital bravery? Manchester: The Higher Education Academy, 2011. N. pag. Manchester Metropolitan University. Web. 13 Feb. 2013. <http://www-new1.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/Documents/resources/publications/Paper040201.pdf>.
Search Engine: scholar.google.com
Search Words: filter bubble
Summary: Digital literacy: digital maturity or digital bravery is a study discussing the importance critical practice in well constructed assessment tasks. This tells about how not only does one need skills to use digital technologies but also in that suitable tools are needed as well. In order to find the best results, one must understand how the filter bubble works and produce information in a well developed search. It is said that through assessment tasks this can be taught.
Assessment: Now that the internet has grown so large, students are now needing courses to the extent of how to find research. With so much information on the web, how is one to know what is true or not. It takes more than just a few glances at a website or to skim through an article. It is important to realize where to find the source it came from and how one came to find it. It is amazing how two individuals can find very different results through the filter bubble.
Reflection: this article was helpful in that it shows the problems academic students go through and the steps to finding good information. It is realistic in that it explains how most students believe they are already skilled in digital technologies but are often times unaware of factors that can create major problems. Being unaware of the filter bubble and its characteristics can leave one with false or invalid information, or information completely irrelevant to what one is trying to research.
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Annotated Bibliographies
Erica Huff
Professor Culik
English 1190-c1608
Filter Bubbles
14 February 2013
Stray, Jonathan. "Are We Stuck in Filter Bubbles? Here Are Five Potential Ways Out" Niemen Journalism Lab. Web. 11 July 2012.
< http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/07/are-we-stuck-in-filter-bubbles-here-are-five-potential-paths-out/>
Summary: Jonathan Stray talks about in his article how filter bubbles are best described by the word anxiety and how our personal interface on the internet will only tell us what we want us to hear, hiding all the unpleasant but rather important information and news. Stray mentions in his article how was all depend on algorithms to give us our daily news and who’s status to view, where would we be lost in the web without algorithms? He says that different people need different information needs, and without algorithms we’d never find the information we need.
Assess: Strays article is great because he gives a different view on algorithms that you don’t normally see. By him saying we would be lost in the web gives valid points to what would happen if algorithms no longer existed on the web.
Reflection: I really liked his article because of his five points and how he describes algorithms and how they worked in depth.
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Erica Huff
Professor Culik
English 1190-c1608
Filter Bubbles
14 February 20
Hossenfelder,Sabine. “Filter Bubbles” Backreaction. Web. 11 May 2011.
<http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2011/05/filter-bubbles.html>
Summary: Sabine Hossenfelder says in the beginning of her “In order to find time to sleep and eat we need to filter this information on the web or we’d be lost for days.” She believes we have too much personal information available on the web to make any sort of decision on what to begin searching for. Hossenfelder also says “The internet only process what it thinks to be the most relevant part – which depending on how you look at could be good or bad.”
Assess: Hossenfelder article is good because she gives a good opinion on the bad side of filter bubbles and what they do to searching the internet. She gives good information about internet only searching for the most relevant part.
Reflection: I think I could use some of her information on my paper; Mostly what she mentioned about the internet and relevant sources.
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Brian Sanchez
Professor Hugh Culik
English 1190-C1603
Monday and Wednesday 8am
http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2011/11/blowing-up-peer-review-bubble.html
Search Engine: Google
Search Words: Filter Bubble compared to Peer Review
Annotated Bibliography
Summarize: At the beginning of the article they talk about the three main points of what the journal publication system isn’t doing and the points are dissemination, verification, and allocation of attention. They describe to the readers that they keep avoiding or passing by these three things when in reality this is what we need to publish a good journal. Also they state clearly that us readers are paying the price the now but not getting the goods. They are using silly and blind use of metrics like impact factors for hiring, grants and promotion which lead to wasteful optimization of these. The author is surprised that some papers do not start a bidding war between publishers after having landed as preprints. Soon he believes will be a virtuous cycle of consistently good or OK papers in the community.
Assess: Why isn’t this author saying anything to the publishers, editors, and such? Couldn’t he have a say in all of this why isn’t he putting his voice out there so people can hear what needs to happen and what they should be following in order to publish more successful papers and not just have good and OK ones out there. What he pointed out was true that those three main parts are being left you can read almost all the new articles being published and look to see if any of them actually that in them because of them don’t and won’t because of publishers not doing their right jobs and making better choices on what should be published. They should never even think of a bidding war if the papers were write correctly, that would never cross their mind.
Reflect: Just reading this article makes me believe that I could be reading wrong information all the time on the web and I can’t trust any of the information that is being giving to me. I say this because of what the publishers aren’t doing to make the journals and articles great not good or OK. What are ways we can fix what they are doing? Could this be from using the Internet more and coming up with different results because those results are organized to come up with websites you might like the best but know one else might find that good information due to the fact they aren’t coming up with the same results. Once you put that information in a paper who can read it and make it great because its your information and your the only one that seems to find it. There are many factors that could be taking a toll on our journals and articles but it starts with getting back to following those three steps.
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Christopher Koehler
02/19/13
ENG1190-C1603
Professor Culik
Search Engine: Google
Search Terms: Filter Bubbles Algorithms
(Matt Silverman, How Algorithms and Editors Can Work Together to Burst the "Filter Bubble”, Nov 2011)
Link: http://mashable.com/2011/11/04/eli-pariser-media-summit/
Summary
The article opens by stating, filter bubbles are a miracle of modern society that organize knowledge. The article then goes on to summarize some of Eli Pariser’s work at the TED conference. The article hits upon the topic of filter bubbles isolating individuals, to their own opinions and preferences, and how this may lead to an issue of a disconnected society. The article then brings up Eli Pariser’s seven points on what algorithms do poorly. First off, is anticipation, algorithms cannot anticipate future events such as a market crash as well as a human can. Secondly, is risk taking, algorithms do not take chances with suggestions they are in a permanent safe mode, only suggesting common content in a very narrow spectrum. The third point was, big picture, meaning algorithms cannot do the job of connecting data and drawing conclusions. The fourth point was, pairing, algorithms cannot connect data and draw an individual deeper into subjects without the ability to pair information. The fifth was social importance, meaning that algorithms can determine what is popular, but not what is important.
The sixth point was, mind blowingness, which means algorithms take the safe route and will not suggest something if the evaluations are split between love it and hate it. The last point was, trust, Pariser says that people can trust a good editor but algorithms will never be trust worthy. The article then proposes the solution of having humans and code work side by side, each doing the things they are best at.
Reflect
The article was a great summary of Pariser’s ideas and works. The article got straight to the point and was very clear. The article was a reflection of Parsier’s work, and did a good job of helping understand his opinion on filter bubbles.
Assess
The article helped develop my prospectus into a cleaner and clearer idea. The breakdown of the issues with filter bubbles helped me understand the issues, tremendously. I feel that after reading this article I am prepared to write a clear and professional paper on the comparisons between filter bubbles and peer review.
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Joey Rice
Professor Culik
English 1190-C1603
19 February 2013
Annotated Bibliography
http://mmi.tudelft.nl/ValuesInDesign11/proceedings.pdf#page=7
Summarize: Personalization has a way of not benefiting to specific situations. There are always third parties involved that usually manage and storages needs. With all of this data stored in one service provider for everyone that uses it, does the filter bubble actually help with keeping information categorized so that which personal information won’t become lost. The algorithms can work not having control and the certain knowledge of the user that then becomes a filter bubble. This can let certain things in and let other things out without certain consent of the user. Underneath are the algorithms that are over the social and the individual communities.
Access: Having certain gatekeepers overseeing the algorithms of the discourse and the commercial culture are different in a way were the discourse communities is and was how knowledge was confined to having steps as publications, and institutions have their way with how information goes or doesn’t. With the social there are only a few boundaries that have to be passed making things a little easier to have things let out. The discourse is like a defense, the other is the individual trying to make their own thing work.
Reflect: Having two separate communities as in the social and individual may be helpful to where there are new ideas about what’s important to being credible or having a specific claim about certain knowledge. To not just have one way, but also it may not be beneficial to have algorithms control or censor what should be let in and let out. Maybe being shielded from new knowledge.
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