Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Study Guide - Pagerank, Unmoved Mover, Mark P. Mccahill
1 May 2013
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Fed by website info, not accurate info. Filter failure: anticipatory query fills based on top-trending topics: what does this say about what users are looking for and their top concerns, based on popularity, suggests that everything we search for is logged by google. Corporate control and influence with search results. Stages: desire/lack of, the search (and browsing), retrieval, verification, application. Analogy: google as house: neat, interesting people, well organized people like to visit, but all visitors are producing the interesting stuff and are organizing it without their knowledge, they provide space, we do work. Has to produce surprise or have element of newness. Information tell us how information moves and behaves. We are contributing to collective intelligence in everything we do online. Carr - is google making us stupid article. Deep reading: nobody has time to analyze a single sentence anymore. Disinformation: information that isn"t useful to a person. Internet makes us move away from deep thinking.
