Day 2: Darwin Awareness is nice, but Rotten Tomatoes is great!
After examining the stalking tools – ahem, I mean, social analytics tools – out there, it is interesting that this seems to represent another level of disconnection. By this I mean, we are obviously so busy that we’ve gone from watching/reading the news, to reading blogs, to getting RSS feeds, to having the feeds focused […]
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bcourey 4:29 pm on November 22, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Emily, I like your comment about stalking…ever since I read the readings for this week, I have felt a creepy sense of someone looking over my shoulder…not a good feeling. It also agree that we have come to a surface reading level through the RSS feeds, Scoop-it etc. instead of in-depth reading – and the fact that analytics is determining what I am going to read next is quiet disconcerting to me…Trending worries me
Brenda
Kristopher 9:25 am on November 23, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Emily and Brenda,
Agreed– it is worrisome. I found even more worrisome was the fact that we don’t get to control how google is filtering what we use. I have always enjoyed using google for its simplicity, but I think that that simplicity is in fact found in hiding from the user the ‘background’ of what’s going on.
What am I missing? It makes me doubt when I make statements like ‘everything I have seen lately’, or ‘I get a sense that…’, because those senses of things I have seen have been carefully censored and guided.
Kristopher
Allie 10:18 am on November 23, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
From all of your comments, it really strikes me that gaining this understanding of how social analytics works can really form a good base for teaching students how to conduct really good internet research, which as we know is such an essential skill. Perhaps we might even think of it as a key part of digital literacy.