When I searched for “academic articles from Canadian universities on the topic of leadership” in Google, most of the results were from newspaper articles on leaders, university databases, leadership scholarship. Few results were actual academic articles. In contrast, searching for “scholarly articles leadership site:CA” within Google Articles resulted in multiple pages of journal articles published …
It was fascinating to search terms and see how Google is actively constructing our perceptions of occupational and gender roles. All of the terms were closely related to perceived cultural norms and biases within my geographic region. This reminds me of a theory that I learnt from my technology class from my undergrad called technological …
For a few years now, I have been consciously trying to use “ixquick”, which is now called “startpage” for browsing the web. In brief, this browser (like a few others) uses the search results cache from Google without giving personal user information or their IP addresses to Google servers, because whether we like it or …
I think I have always known that Google has “biases”, but I never thought about it much in practice. I think these biases can be based on browser history, country searched within, culturally understood gender roles, understanding in a culture… Continue Reading →
Reflection on the google image search activity: From the images above it is clear to see the majority of the images are of Caucasian ethnicity. Searching professor returned images of mostly men that appear to be over the age of 50. Related search terms included university, scientist, hogwarts, and animated. In contrast, the images of …
Hodge Podgy and definitively obtuse. My experience on the Google Moogly exercise. The image exercise was interesting. I recorded only first page findings, but interesting nonetheless. The Professor image search netted a 32 image first page with 29 men depicted as professors, 2 women and 1 Donald Trump??? The images were multi-racially mixed throughout. Teacher …
Googly Moogly Hi Ray, If you want to create a new page for resources on your website then you can just select “add new page” from the pages link on your dashboard menu. As an example, I have created a separate page on my website for my favorite leadership resources. You can view that page […]
Narrowing Google Searches I learned a lot from this exercise! Alan November’s article was an important reminder to me […]
The first part of this assignment, looking at the images that came up with specific terms, was fairly simple, if time consuming. There were some general findings that I was expecting; for example, there were more Caucasians than visible minorities in all of the photos. However, some of the findings did surprise me a bit. … Continue reading The Great Googly Moogly
These learning activities were very educational for me. Here is a summary of what I found in the image searches: Professors were primarily Caucasian men who had grey hair and glasses. There were very few images of women and there were only a few images of people from different ethnic groups. Even Donald Trump showed […]