To Bubble or Not to Bubble
Eli Parsier's Ted Talk, "Beware online "filter bubbles"' , focuses on the dangers of the filtered information that we are constantly receiving on the internet. " As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview." The message that this delivers is that the internet is no longer a connection to the world, it has become personalized per use and is therefore limiting the users exposure to various ideas and opinions. As personalization and invisible-algorithms are sweeping the web, we move towards an experience that shows us what the internet thinks we want to see and hiding from us what we actually need to see. Sue Halpern's, "Mind control & the Internet" , also expresses the importanc...
