Identify & Challenge Disinformation (aka Fake News): Search Bias
Challenging the Algorithms of Oppression
Safiya Noble is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. In her PDF 2016 talk, Noble explains why we should care about commercial spaces dominating our information landscape.
The moral bias behind your search results
Search engines have become our most trusted sources of information and arbiters of truth. But can we ever get an unbiased search result? Swedish author and journalist Andreas Ekström argues that such a thing is a philosophical impossibility. In this thoughtful talk, he calls on us to strengthen the bonds between technology and the humanities, and he reminds us that behind every algorithm is a set of personal beliefs that no code can ever completely eradicate.
What is a Filter Bubble?
Are your news sources diverse? How do you encounter viewpoints different from your own? Can you listen and try to understand the other side?
If the answer is no, you may be in a filter bubble!
What is a Filter Bubble?
- Your own personal, unique universe of information you (probably unknowingly) live in online. And what's in your filter bubble depends on who you are, and it depends on what you do. But the thing is that you don't decide what gets in. And more importantly, you don't actually see what gets edited out (via Eli Pariser's TED Talk)
- The intellectual isolation that can occur when websites make use of algorithms to selectively assume the information a user would want to see, and then give information to the user according to this assumption (via Techopedia)
- Information network that results from sources using its vats of data to offer us what it thinks we want to see and hear (via Digital Trends)
Pop Your Filter Bubble
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Everything Is In a Filter Bubble and How to Unfilter YourselfOffers a few good ways to unfilter yourself
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How to Burst the "Filter Bubble" that Protects Us from Opposing ViewsMIT Tech Review on expanding different types of content to pop the filter bubble
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10 Ways To Pop Your Filter BubbleList of ways to de-personalize your web experience
About Your Filter Bubble
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The Filter Bubble by Call Number: ZA4237 .P37 2011An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling-and limiting-the information we consume.
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The Filter Bubble: how personalization changes societyReview and critique of Eli Pariser's The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You
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Fun facts from the new Facebook filter bubble studyFacebook’s new study on the filter bubble has lots of interesting tidbits on how liberals and conservatives consume content on the platform.
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How Facebook News Feed WorksAn overview of how Facebook's newsfeed works and how it influences what we see
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‘Unfriending’ Trump supporters is just another example of how we isolate ourselves onlineWashington Post piece on confirmation bias and how we isolate ourselves online
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The ‘Filter Bubble’ Explains Why Trump Won and You Didn’t See It ComingHow your filter bubble may have blinded you to the perspectives of fellow American voters
TED Talks - playlists
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How to pop our filter bubblesInsights and advice to escaping the echo chambers of social media, newsfeeds, and everyday conversation so that we may get a better, less rose-tinted grasp of the world and people around us. Playlist (9 talks)