Thanks to you all again for your insightful comments and for sharing your discoveries through these activities. It is fantastic to see new MA Lead students like Christina, who take their own digital privacy and identity seriously. And it is also excellent that this orientation has encouraged Georgeena to learn more about online privacy. The […]
That was a fascinating hour of my life! I have always had background knowledge of the way google influences society, and how much data they have about me. However, I certainly felt the penny drop hard in my head this time! Last year at a spring production at our school our middle schoolers displayed a … Continue reading Google
Looking at the images they are all very stereotypical and oddly enough for leader there are renderings of stick figures and animations. A lot of the “teenager” images showed young people crying or being consoled which seems a bit odd depending on your perception of the teen years. Suggestions up top include race, emotional state …
For this activity I literally went by the book . I went through the two articles, and the strategies made sense- until I started trying to apply them to my search . Out of three activities, the one I had most success with was finding PDFs related to my field, which is medicine ( no […]
Activity 1 Here are some snapshots of my results when I googled the terms without any advance search strategies: I found that for most the searches, the people that came up were Caucasians with the exception of the “leader” and “teacher” searches. This makes sense though because my location is in Canada, which is predominantly […]
The real culprits behind why Google does what it does are us. I can see what this activity was getting at, and saw glimpses of how Google or other search engines start to cross a line of just supplying you with information to starting to supply you with certain information. Google did predominantly supply
Activity 1 I found that for some of the search terms it was a very ethnic/gender search result. For example, when searching for “professor” the first several images were of caucasian men with white hair (some of which looked like Albert Einstein). However, for some of the search results there were vary diverse gender/ethnicities. For […]