EID 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Filter Bubble, Keyword Stuffing, Internet.Org
What makes things digital?
• Needs to be electronic
o Has 0s and 1s (binary)
o Either on or off (volts)
• What is digitizing?
o How do you convert a chair into a digital presence?
o Describe it mathematically and convert it into binary
*To e digital, you do’t eed eletriity or iruitry, you a physially eode soethig
*It’s possile to rite data ito a hard drie ad read it ith eletroi u ould use agetis
Encoding – putting into binary
Archival – store information
Retrieval – decoding information
Transport – transport information over large areas efficiency
Accuracy – works in absolutes and the accuracy is better than any analog storage
The digital divide
Black girls code – an initiative that works against the digital divide by introducing girls of color into the tech world through workshops
and programs
Generally, who is left out?
Blak girls i the alle ad do’t hae aess to oputers
Why?
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Poverty - Pockets of people in the USA do’t hae the chance to access technology
What can be done to fix this problem?
- Start code camps and bring them into technology and gain hands on experience
o When adding network infrastructure to areas impoverished, the output and knowledge in that area grows.
- There’s a growth in entrepreneurship
o Access to funding through donations
- Most of us live in urban centres, once you exit, internet access becomes harder
- The knowledge gap hypothesis → information and knowledge is not equally spread out in society
o The fat that ou hae’t ee eposed or been taught certain things at a young age can prevent you from accessing
soethig like the iteret. If u hae’t used a sipe or a tap card, ou’ll e ofused he u use it.
High penetration rates in Canada and USA
Give me an analogy to describe the internet
- Pipelines
- A web
- the grid
- information super highway
- the cloud
Certain areas in Africa are not connected such as the central region
Series of pipelines have 1 connection
What divides?
- global: developed vs undeveloped
- economics: poor vs wealthy
- geographical: urban vs rural areas
- physical: able vs disable
- generational: young vs old
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Document Summary
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