Eli Pariser

Jared Goan Dr. Mark Poindexter BCA 210 8 October 2017 Adderal in Society In The Filter Bubble, Pariser discusses the impact of hyper-focused and self-centered information on society. More specifically, he talks about the ADD prescription drug Adderal and how it affects students, and compares it with how the filter bubble in society has the same sort of affect on the general population. Pariser begins by telling a story about a KGB officer named Yuri Nosenko who began spying for the CIA in…

regarding this issue is shown in a video posted by Eli Pariser on TEDtalk called “Beware online ‘filter bubbles’”. This…

The term “Filter Bubble” came from a Ted Talks presentation by Eli Pariser called Beware Online “Filter Bubbles”. Throughout the presentation Pariser basically depicts how our techniques for gathering news are possibly skewed. He explains how our social media browsing can affect what is presented to us. Through many different complex algorithms, our browsers are able to analyze our browsing history and determine what our interests are. One reason that this can be seen as a negative aspect of the…

The Difference Between Digital Natives and Youths Being in the era of technology it is obvious that it is thriving and spreading quicker than ever, with some people avoiding the new advancements, but the majority following right behind. In a chapter called “are today’s youth digital natives?” from danah boyd’s book, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, she defines the contrast between digital natives and digital immigrants. danah boyd is a youth researcher, social media…

More often than not, between two people, a quick search on Google about a current event will output different results. The “Top Picks” on their Netflix home screens will not match up. The advertisements that constantly pop up on the sides of their screens may depict the pair of pants or shoes that they were looking at only a day ago on an unrelated website. Major-league companies like Google, Yahoo, and Facebook have the vast majority of their users oblivious to their unceasing content…

and can be viewed as pure ignorance. Activist and author of Filter Bubbles , Eli Pariser describes filter bubbles as “personal ecosystems of information”. Pariser identifies filter bubbles to be present in every aspect of a person's life. Filter bubbles aren’t always brought upon from search engines such as google or social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, it is also present in people’s social lives. Eli Pariser goes on to say how filter bubbles are present in people's everyday lives,…

victory in the US election, many who expected the results to go the other way were left shocked. How could this happen when almost everyone they knew had backed the other side? If they’d been paying attention to Eli Pariser back in 2011, they might have realised their…

5. What could you have done differently during our lobbying exercise to ensure the opposite outcome? 5. For the lobbying exercise, my role was Diane Schwier, an aggregate inspector with the ministry of natural resources. In order to change the outcome of the quarry not being built I and the other Diance Schwier could have done more advocating against the quarry. As a part of provincial government, we could have talked with other provincial government peoples about why we should vote against it…

Hanna Burmeister JMC:1200:A06 17/11/17 TED Talk Analysis The TED talk I decided to analyze is Eli Pariser’s talk called “Beware Online ‘Filter Bubbles’”. In the talk, Pariser discusses how Google and other online media forms, are confining users by creating what he calls “filter bubbles”. These bubbles form when online sites tailor their services, including news, videos, and search results, to their user’s personal preferences. While this personalization may sound promising, it can actually lead…

keeps people separated from individuals who are not like them, and who don’t share their same beliefs. Eli Pariser, chief executive of a “meaningful” viral content website called Upworthy and an internet activist, in his speech “Beware Online Filter Bubbles”, provides an instance of social networking platforms determining the individuals that people interact with on their social media. Pariser claims that Facebook edits out the conservatives out of his newsfeed based on posts that he has clicked…