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A Browser Extension That Shows You Your Filter Bubble
A Browser Extension That Shows You Your Filter Bubble
If there’s anything to take away from the madness that is 2016, it’s that everybody lives in a bubble — the combination of where you live and the media you consume, crystallized, as these things are, in your Facebook feed. If you wish to know just how much of a bubble you’re in, there’s now a handy Chrome extension for that, PolitEcho. It’s a sensible genesis story: Cruising into the election, Princeton computer-science student Zachary Liu thought that, judging by his news feed, Clinton would win in a landslide. But it turned out that the Orange Bubble was not indicative of the country. As is clearly evident in hindsight, you would have missed the widespread support for Trump if you didn’t have a right-leaning network, by the nature of the filter bubble. “Thus emerged the idea of PolitEcho, a visualization of our echo bubbles, a wakeup call to just how skewed our world view is,” he told Select All via Twitter direct message.
#netnarr#filterbubble#netmirror
·nymag.com·
A Browser Extension That Shows You Your Filter Bubble
Measuring the Filter Bubble: How Google is influencing what you click
Measuring the Filter Bubble: How Google is influencing what you click
Over the years, there has been considerable discussion of Google's "filter bubble" problem. Put simply, it's the manipulation of your search results based on your personal data. In practice this means links are moved up or down or added to your Google search results, necessitating the filtering of other search results altogether. These editorialized results are informed by the personal information Google has on you (like your search, browsing, and purchase history), and puts you in a bubble based on what Google's algorithms think you're most likely to click on. The filter bubble is particularly pernicious when searching for political topics. That's because undecided and inquisitive voters turn to search engines to conduct basic research on candidates and issues in the critical time when they are forming their opinions on them. If they’re getting information that is swayed to one side because of their personal filter bubbles, then this can have a significant effect on political outcomes in aggregate. Back in 2012 we ran a study showing Google's filter bubble may have significantly influenced the 2012 U.S. Presidential election by inserting tens of millions of more links for Obama than for Romney in the run-up to that election.
#data#privacy#search#netnarr#netmirror#filterbubble
·spreadprivacy.com·
Measuring the Filter Bubble: How Google is influencing what you click
Excavating AI
Excavating AI
You open up a database of pictures used to train artificial intelligence systems. At first, things seem straightforward. You’re met with thousands of images: apples and oranges, birds, dogs, horses, mountains, clouds, houses, and street signs. But as you probe further into the dataset, people begin to appear: cheerleaders, scuba divers, welders, Boy Scouts, fire walkers, and flower girls. Things get strange: A photograph of a woman smiling in a bikini is labeled a “slattern, slut, slovenly woman, trollop.” A young man drinking beer is categorized as an “alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse.” A child wearing sunglasses is classified as a “failure, loser, non-starter, unsuccessful person.” You’re looking at the “person” category in a dataset called ImageNet, one of the most widely used training sets for machine learning. 
#ai#data#netnarr
·excavating.ai·
Excavating AI
Responsive, Fluid-Width, Variable-Item Navigation with CSS — SitePoint
Responsive, Fluid-Width, Variable-Item Navigation with CSS — SitePoint
Around six months ago I was asked to develop a single row navigation bar that could contain a variable number of menu items while filling the entire width of the container. The amount of navigational items was dictated elsewhere and likely to change in future. Thinking ahead, it would have been impractical to change the CSS every time a menu item was added or removed. A resolution had to be found, ideally without using JavaScript.
#css
·sitepoint.com·
Responsive, Fluid-Width, Variable-Item Navigation with CSS — SitePoint
How to customize WordPress comment notification emails
How to customize WordPress comment notification emails
While working in a food guide project, which has like thousands of posts and hundreds of users, ends up getting hundreds of comments everyday, resulting in filling up my clients mailbox with the moderation/notification mails. As the client and the team logs in almost every day and moderates the comments, they wanted to get away with the emails they were getting. This blog is all about how I did it and what else can be done. Comments moderation and new comment notifications can be enabled and disabled from the Settings >> Discussion. You can check more details about this in the codex. As a developer, I am always keen on looking into how much can we customize some functionality with more options. Lets look into what we can do more about the comment moderation and notification emails.
#comment#wordpress
·sourcexpress.com·
How to customize WordPress comment notification emails
Aware, But Don't Really Care: Students' Perspective on Privacy and Data Collection in Online Courses | Vu | Journal of Open Flexible and Distance Learning
Aware, But Don't Really Care: Students' Perspective on Privacy and Data Collection in Online Courses | Vu | Journal of Open Flexible and Distance Learning
The purpose of this study was to examine student viewpoints about privacy and personal data collection in online courses. Results of data analysis revealed that students were aware that their learning behaviors such as login frequency, pages viewed or clicked, and learning profiles could be monitored and recorded by their instructors. Additionally, they were not concerned about their learning behaviors being monitored, recorded, or collected for academic research, and used for instructional/teaching improvement purposes. No significant difference between gender (female and male) of students in terms of their awareness and concern about their privacy in online learning settings was evident.
#netnarr#privacy#netmirror
·jofdl.nz·
Aware, But Don't Really Care: Students' Perspective on Privacy and Data Collection in Online Courses | Vu | Journal of Open Flexible and Distance Learning
What color is your name?
What color is your name?
My name is Bernadette, and for as long as I can remember, I’ve had a particular kind of Synesthesia called Grapheme-color synesthesia. This means my brain “sees” letters and numbers as very specific colors. For me, this happens the most with names. As a result, when I meet new people, I am terrible at remembering names. I hear the name, but my mind is distracted. In my head, I am calculating the number of letters in the name, and visualizing the colors of each letter. Your name may be Emily, but to me, you’re a bright, happy swath of five letters with an “E” and an “I". When I meet you again later, I may think your name is Emily or Jille or Ellie. Five letters, with an “I” and an “e.” I’ve launched this project to document this phenomenon, and to share with you how I see your name. I hope you enjoy!
#art#color#generator#netnarr
·synesthesia.me·
What color is your name?
Finding the Roots of Confusiasm | Full Circle Associates
Finding the Roots of Confusiasm | Full Circle Associates
Over the years, the concept of “confusiasm” has become not only near and dear to my heart, but useful in so many ways that I never expected. It became a rallying cry for emergent, collaborative learning at a professional development project for professors at the University of Guadalajara (UdG Agora Project – confusiasmo! Translated!). It is a term that has been lovingly adopted by the Liberating Structures global network of practitioners. It has had its moments as a meme on Twitter. Confusiasm is the happy coupling of confusion and enthusiasm. You know, that moment when something interesting is happening but you can’t quite understand it, but it feels really right. The verge of discovery. The hunch that in a messy, complex situation you are starting to see patterns that give you just enough confidence to keep moving forward and not give up.
#ideas#facilitation
·fullcirc.com·
Finding the Roots of Confusiasm | Full Circle Associates
MHz Curationist
MHz Curationist
MHz Curationist is an ecosystem for collecting and sharing cultural materials from the Creative Commons and public domain. We aim to build connections and deepen cultural awareness by collectively framing the world we share. Curationist a space for finding and collecting significant cultural and historical resources that are not limited by copyright. We are people-driven, not algorithm or profit-driven. We strive for inclusion, integrated value creation and innovation as an unfixed and intersectional hub of many cultures: a collaborative global community of dynamic individuals sharing their knowledges and voices. We aspire to communicate liberated cultural narratives that enhance curiosity, intercultural exchange, and critical thinking by prioritizing collaboration and directing attention to the source. We hope you find what you were looking for, and also discover something unexpected and exciting while you are here.
#opencontent#curation#creativecommons#publicdomain
·curationist.org·
MHz Curationist
Old Book Illustrations
Old Book Illustrations
Old Book Illustrations was born of the desire to share illustrations from a modest collection of books, which we set out to scan and publish. With the wealth of resources available online, it became increasingly difficult to resist the temptation to explore other collections and include these images along with our own. Although it would have been possible to considerably broaden the time-frame of our pursuit, we chose to keep our focus on the original period in which we started for reasons pertaining to taste, consistency, and practicality: due to obvious legal restrictions, we had to stay within the limits of the public domain. This explains why there won’t be on this site illustrations first published prior to the 18th century or later than the first quarter of the 20th century. We are not the only image collection on the web, neither will we ever be the largest one. We hope however to be a destination of choice for visitors more particularly interested in Victorian and French Romantic illustrations—we understand French Romanticism in its broadest sense and draw its final line, at least in the realm of book illustration, at the death of Gustave Doré. We also focused our efforts on offering as many different paths and avenues as possible to help you find your way to an illustration, whether you are looking for something specific or browsing randomly. The many links organizing content by artist, language, publisher, date of birth, and more are designed to make searching easier and indecision rewarding.
#art#books#images#publicdomain
·oldbookillustrations.com·
Old Book Illustrations
Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don't fit their worldview
Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don't fit their worldview
In theory, resolving factual disputes should be relatively easy: Just present evidence of a strong expert consensus. This approach succeeds most of the time, when the issue is, say, the atomic weight of hydrogen. But things don’t work that way when the scientific consensus presents a picture that threatens someone’s ideological worldview. In practice, it turns out that one’s political, religious or ethnic identity quite effectively predicts one’s willingness to accept expertise on any given politicized issue. “Motivated reasoning” is what social scientists call the process of deciding what evidence to accept based on the conclusion one prefers.
#research#netmirror#netnarr
·theconversation.com·
Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don't fit their worldview
picdescbot
picdescbot
This is picdescbot (short for Picture Description Bot). It tries to describes pictures it finds on the on Wikimedia Commons. The bot’s code is fairly simple. It grabs a random picture from Wikimedia Commons, passes it through filters to ensure it’s not offensive, and then asks Microsoft Cognitive Services to describe the picture. The service probably uses a neural network trained for pattern recognition or something like that - which means it uses “artificial intelligence”. All text in the posts in this tumblr-blog is 100% computer generated (unless otherwise specified).
#bot#ai#netnarr#netmirror
·picdescbot.tumblr.com·
picdescbot
Moises.ai
Moises.ai
Moises separates song tracks using machine learning. It leverages the power of a state-of-the-art audio source separation algorithm developed by Deezer Research.
#ai#music#audio#ds106
·moises.ai·
Moises.ai
Virtual Exchange Coalition
Virtual Exchange Coalition
Virtual exchanges are technology-enabled, sustained, people-to-people education programs. Developed over the past 30 years from experience in the field of educational exchange and study abroad – and evolving rapidly with the explosive growth in new media technologies and platforms – virtual exchanges have been integrated at all levels of education from kindergarten through university and are distinctive in their use of new media platforms to enable deep, interactive, social learning. By employing a wide variety of technologies and educational pedagogy, virtual exchanges make it possible for every young person to access high-quality international and cross-cultural education. Virtual exchanges function in a synergistic and complementary way with physical exchange programs. They can prepare, deepen and extend physical exchanges, and, by reaching new populations and larger numbers, fuel new demand for physical exchange.
#netmirror#netnarr#virtualcollab#education
·virtualexchangecoalition.org·
Virtual Exchange Coalition
Soliya
Soliya
Our mission is to empower young people to establish more effective, cooperative, and compassionate relations within and between their societies by providing high quality global education that combines the power of dialogue with the reach of new media technologies. The world is more interdependent than ever before, and the challenges of the 21st Century demand multilateral solutions. It is critical that the next generation build the skills and attitudes they need to collaboratively address these challenges. Virtual exchanges—defined as sustained, technology-enabled, people to people education programs—can vastly expand the number and diversity of young people who have access to profound cross-cultural experiences as part of their education. In 2011, together with iEarn USA and GNG, Soliya formed the Virtual Exchange Coalition to raise awareness, grow the field, and together reach many more and more diverse young people globally.
#connectingpeople#connectedlearning#virtualcollab#netnarr#netmirror
·soliya.net·
Soliya
This Map Shows the Most Common Surnames in Every Country
This Map Shows the Most Common Surnames in Every Country
Today, human society is more culturally diverse than ever, but our surnames can tell us a lot about our ancestral origins. While there are plenty of lesser known last names, this map created by online lending firm NetCredit reveals the most common surnames around the world, according to each country.
#map
·mymodernmet.com·
This Map Shows the Most Common Surnames in Every Country
2018 update on the OERu Technology Stack | OERu Technology Blog
2018 update on the OERu Technology Stack | OERu Technology Blog
At the OERu, in following our open principles, we have ended up creating a "Next Generation Digital Learning Environment" (NGDLE) to meet the needs of our learners, partners, and OER collaborators. It's a distributed, loosely coupled component model. It's also entirely made up of Free and Open Source software, from top to bottom.
#cloud#education#learning#opensource#openedtech
·tech.oeru.org·
2018 update on the OERu Technology Stack | OERu Technology Blog
What every Browser knows about you
What every Browser knows about you
This is a demonstration of all the data your browser knows about you. All this data can be accessed by any website without asking you for any permission. Most of the data points are educated guesses and not considered to be accurate.
#privacy#netnarr#netmirror
·webkay.robinlinus.com·
What every Browser knows about you
Panopticlick
Panopticlick
When you visit a website, online trackers and the site itself may be able to identify you – even if you’ve installed software to protect yourself. It’s possible to configure your browser to thwart tracking, but many people don’t know how. Panopticlick will analyze how well your browser and add-ons protect you against online tracking techniques. We’ll also see if your system is uniquely configured—and thus identifiable—even if you are using privacy-protective software. However, we only do so with your explicit consent, through the TEST ME button below.
#browser#privacy#security#tracking#netnarr#netmirror
·panopticlick.eff.org·
Panopticlick
Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy. - The Washington Post
Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy. - The Washington Post
You open your browser to look at the Web. Do you know who is looking back at you? Over a recent week of Web surfing, I peered under the hood of Google Chrome and found it brought along a few thousand friends. Shopping, news and even government sites quietly tagged my browser to let ad and data companies ride shotgun while I clicked around the Web. This was made possible by the Web’s biggest snoop of all: Google. Seen from the inside, its Chrome browser looks a lot like surveillance software.
#surveillance#netnarr#netmirror
·washingtonpost.com·
Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy. - The Washington Post