Customized Internet: LJ3
Though a bit confusing, the reading from this week provided great insight on how popularity and privacy has been viewed throughout the years, while also connecting it to how easily accessible consumer information is. Back then it might've been great to be a celebrity since there was a lack of social media. Also there were slower productions times. For example, if an important figured happened to pass away on before social media, the news would take quite a bit of time to spread. News papers and magazines would be working overtime to get prints out by the next day. In the current day, if a celebrity were to pass away at 9:02 p.m. the mass would be informed of this information by 9:01 p.m. I wish that was a joke but TMZ has reported deaths to social media before families were even informed about the news.
The article introduction speaks on how data is being unknowingly collected and utilized to create algorithms tailored to our "needs." We no longer have the ability to keep ourselves private. Instead of the having the choice on whether we want to be known or not, our computers, search engines, phones, etc. are consistently studying us and storing information we might've not even thought of as important. Though the information may be thought of as small or unimportant, it is key to understand how this information is being used. "These elements must be aggregated, cross-referenced, and algorithmically analyzed to produce knowledges about my life that... can then be used by marketers, spy agencies..." (Cheney-Lippold, 2019) Sure you're getting ads specific to yourself, but what is happening after that. Information does not just go away, I think it'd be interesting to know how else our personal data is being utilized (as if they'd actually tell us).
This information will not truly affect my use of social media, since I think whats done is done. I can't take back my information, I probably signed agreement terms that prohibit me from doing that anyways. This does make me want to be more cautious about the content that I am putting out to the world, so that I don't potentially ruin any opportunities that may be out there for me.
References:
Cheney-Lippold, J. (2019). In We are data: Algorithms and the making of our Digital Selves (p 22). introduction, New York University Press.
Hello Choumika,
ReplyDeleteThe reading was very confusing but also interesting to read about since it is true that there is many different types of information out there about people that we don't even know about and its interesting to pull up about. But in you blog I found it interesting the information you have used since it ties in very well with what you are discussing about and it makes a nice smooth flow as well with what you're pointing out when discussing.
I agree that the reading did have some difficulty when it came to the message that it was trying to deliver but it did have good insight. I agree that the times have changed and when something big happened in the past it would time time to spread but nowadays it will take a few minutes for one big story to hit the internet.
ReplyDeleteHi Choumika can agree that for me the reading wasnt easy to understand now but your statement was very much true it reminds me of when famous basketball player Kobe Bryant died and and the news reported it before the family even had word the news papers and everything are not nearly fast enough these days.
ReplyDeleteHi Choumika, the thought of no longer being private i believe was killed a while ago once the internet had become more advanced. The IP addresses, Cookies, HTTP header info, and more are all being collected and tracked on your device every second. This can be very unsettling to think about, however this is what we should expect whilst using the internet and is why we should very very wary of our search and data behavior.
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