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Sunday, June 19, 2011

The internet bubble

In the age of technology that we are in information is only a click away. From pc to cellphones and even now tablets and ipads. We can get information easier than gettin a drink of water but how much of that in formation is the whole truth. You read stories about how other countries governmets block the information that there people see but what if not ur government but other factors where placeing u into a social bubble that doesnt block but filters what u see and even what you search for.What is he internet hiding from you? Eli Pariser’s New York Times best-selling new book, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You. Pariser who is the president of the board of moveon.org is has been applauded by net skeptics like Jaron Lanier and Evgeny Morozov as well as digital optimists like Clay Shirky and Craig Newmark. It’s an important book which argues that leading websites like Google and Facebook are delivering personalized information to us, thereby shielding Internet users from the broad news and ideas that traditional newspapers delivered to us. The method by which this is done is with a very special method  called algorithms. Algorithms are a special set of rules that are implanted into a program or site that governs its function. While this doesn't seem bad some net skeptics argue that the se algorithms are being used to almost censor the internet by not blocking what you see but by withholding information that they deam less important. Some can argue that this is creating a less well informed public. What do u think?

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