The Algorithmic You is a youth-led digital literacy toolkit designed to facilitate a ‘self-discovery’ of how algorithmic mechanisms shape your everyday life.
Watch a video describing the project here:
/our mission
We want to empower our peers to develop algorithmic literacy in an increasingly digital world. Through educational Instagram posts and a summer book club, we aim to equip students with the critical algorithm literature needed to navigate their digital lives.
/our team
We are an interdisciplinary group of undergraduate students at the University of Toronto who embarked on this research journey as part of the 2020 Jackman Humanities Institute Scholars-in-Residence program, with additional support and guidance from The eQuality Project.
/the toolkit
Our toolkit was shared at the 2020 online conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, which published the extended abstract written by our research coordinators. The abstract was recently cited by Sophie Bishop and Tanya Kant in Points, by Data & Society.
/our sponsors
This initiative exists as a result of the 2020 Scholars-in-Residence program at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto, and is a part of The eQuality Project, a SSHRC partnership that explores young people’s experiences of online privacy and equality.
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