Algorithms, Identity and You/Me/(Us?)
In his TED talk, Eli Pariser is concerned with how content filter algorithms, used by sites like Facebook and Google, insulate the individual from ideas outside their usual sphere of experience, creating so-called “filter bubbles.” This problem is of particular interest if we apply it to the process of identity construction. Katja de Vries, in her paper “Identity, profiling algorithms and a world of ambient intelligence,” refers to these algorithms as a part of emerging ambient technologies, technologies that envision a world “in which computing is brought into the world by…read more