Filter Bubble: The Ted Talk

In chapter 2 of The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser, after discussing how although two newspapers still create the base of almost all news stories that get shared online, newspapers are failing daily. He then explains how news became centered around “public opinion” instead of just information about the outside world. Pariser reminds us that:

Never has a communications system played so many roles in our lives--or exerted such broad influence over our thoughts--as the Internet does today.

Carr writes articles and books on technology, business, and culture, and has written for the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is a well established writer and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2011. Carr wrote this article because he found himself having a hard time focusing on any type of deep reading, something that he feels is very important to having a well rounded mind. He emphasizes that because the internet is structured to be a massive amount of information read one small piece at a time, our minds are starting to reflect that. He is writing for an intellectual audience who are probably for the most part highly educated. His audience would be those who can see the importance of the way that we consume information, and how our brains use that information. His writing in this article does a very good job of reaching that audience thanks to his obvious knowledge on the subject, and how he relates to his

It was the early 2000s, and I would always ask my parents if I could use their desktop computer to do one task: surf the web. Sometimes they would let me, sometimes they will not; when they do, hype ensues. Through one Sony computer, I am about to enter a still-young digital world that seemed to have no limits. The Internet was continuing to grow in spite of the dot-com bubble. While I appreciated the overall potential computers had at the time, I saw the Internet as a big deal. This is not because it would bring us Google and Twitter, but because it was a neat way to play time-killing games in Cartoon Network, Nick, or Disney’s sites. However, the one annoying feature that many sites — especially those for entertainment — often suffered from

Keen states in his essay that future networks will know what everyone is doing all at once. Today’s Internet everything we do from our use of location services and emails to Internet searches, advertising and entertainment is increasingly open and transparent. And it is this increasingly ubiquitous social network fueled by our billions of confessional tweets and narcissistic updates. To stand behind

It is difficult to communicate with people in alternate filter bubbles without losing friends. In order to avoid this problem, we must first understand the problem. If you are in a filter bubble, you may only surround yourself with people who agree with your personal likes and dislikes. When friends arrive to a disagreement, it can be very hard not to take things personal. It is important to be very mindful of what we say to our friends because they hold significant roles in our daily lives. A friendship is far more important than one person being right or wrong about a topic. Today, I will discuss ways to communicate with people in alternate filter bubbles without losing friends. One way to communicate with people in alternate filter bubbles

After watching the Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubble” he explains how we get trapped in a “filter bubble” but not getting exposed to the information that could widen our worldview. He also goes on to talk about how we are not in unity like we think because we live in our own personal bubbles through or on the internet, but we do not get to pick what all goes into our bubble. I agree with that but the people to blame is the ones who withholds the information we need to challenge us and the things that get edited out. Even though our bubbles consist of who we are and what we do, it’s not fair because we have no control over what gets put into our bubbles or what get left out. The ESPN article also ties in with the filter bubble as well.

It is hard to communicate with people in alternate filter bubbles without losing friends. In order to avoid this problem, we must first understand the problem. Being in a filter bubble means that you surround yourself with people or things that agree with your personal likes and dislikes. When friends arrive to a disagreement, it can be very hard not to take things personal. It is important to be very mindful of what we say to our friends because they hold significant roles in our daily life. It is important to create a list of steps to follow when you are communicating with those friends who are in alternate filter bubbles. I decided to use these steps because a friendship is far more important than one person being right or wrong. Today,

Although the 2016 presidential election was over one month ago, many people still can’t believe the surprise result. Behind being upset about the result, some populations start to think the role of social media during the election. They aware the power of social media is very strong. But at the same time, only a few of them realize that they live in filter bubbles.

You wrote, “I think we can learn a lot from this video and have a careful mindset that now our online search engine is filtering what we are interested in and what side we take on certain topics” and that could not be any truer. Such as, as when I am doing my due diligence on the choice I have to make in less than two weeks regarding who our next president may be, the results of my searches compared to my husbands are entirely different. Social media campaigning is the new frontier for electoral politics, bringing with it an incredible amount of contact and psychological effects. One has to believe that algorithmically created “Filter Bubbles” may change the necessary strategy to win presidential elections in the future!

One thing I found most interesting was thought of how heavily I base my facts and opinions on search results, that for all I know could be manipulated. This scary thought isn’t just about what we see when we ask google a question, its what we don't see that scares me.

There are many pros and cons of censorship some of them are very bad in the long run. Some examples are that sex-related topics being censored can be

From what we choose to eat to what we choose to wear, it has some effect on us. Every day, millions of people willingly choose to get on the Internet. Carr even states that he has “been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet” over the past decade (Carr, 634). This raises the question: why would you partake in something that you feel is lessening your ability? There is no simple answer to this question. One may say that they need the Internet for research, but there are many other ways to research. However, the Internet is the easiest and fastest way to research today. This much is already known; even Carr agrees that the Internet is a “godsend” and that research that once required days can be done in mere minutes (Carr, 634). This brings to the surface the want to use the Internet. Somewhere, no matter how deep down it is, there is a piece of every single person that wants to take the easy route. This incessant want to make things easier is the sole purpose of Google. According to Carr, Google is attempting to create an artificial intelligence that is similar to “a HAL-like machine that could be connected directly to our brains” which is an allusion to the science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (Carr, 639). Carr seems to believe that as we come to rely on computers, that we will be lesser than the machines that we create, much like in 2001 (Carr,

In the film "Beware Online 'filter bubbles'" by Eli Pariser and the article "Mind Control & the Internet" by Sue Halpern discuss the "algorithmic editing of the web". Both the film and the article focus on how search engines filter the search for its users. Eli Pariser and Sue Halpern mentions about the different result of the same search. For example, Eli Pariser asked two of his friends to google "Egypt", and both of them have two different search results. In the article, Sue Halpern mentions that the result we get was that "Google's algorithm suggests is best for [us] in particular--and someone else may see something entirely different. In other words, there is no standard Google anymore." Both authors argue that search engines filter

Following the success of Netscape and its web browser, Internet became a resource and communication platform idolized by many IT students in the universities. What started off as a hobby-cum-research[1] work by Jerry Yang (now Chief of Yahoo!) and David Filo (Co-founder of Yahoo!) for their Ph.D. dissertations; has evolved and became an Internet sensation over time. What they did was to compile all their favourite web links to form an online directory for easy navigation in the World Wide Web. The duo’s work immediately garnered a lot of attention from many surfers in the Internet world and before they realized it, Yahoo! became one of the most highly visited websites of all time. The duo saw the