We leave traces of ourselves everywhere we go on the Internet. Social media platforms gather information about us – from our political opinions and entertainment choices, to the restaurants we go to and who we spend time with. This ability to categorize you into a certain type of consumer, an ‘algorithmic you’, if you will 😉, is the backbone of a trillion-dollar data and advertising industry.
Do we really have any control over what we see and do online…and offline? Should we be okay with unknowable and unaccountable corporate algorithms knowing our lives? What do #algorithms and other buzzwords actually mean??? These are the questions we aim to explore in our upcoming projects.
This resource was originally posted to the @ thealgorithmicyou Instagram page on May 29, 2020.
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