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  1. Last 7 days
    1. You can tell how capitalism was inspired or infnluenced by colonialism which was older. This is shown in how one group or person has the msot pwoer and sets the rules and laws in a place. In colonialism, the country imposes laws, culture, and language on the group and in capitalism, the same can be said in how there might be a language policy or code of conduct in the company that everyone has to follow

    1. I could see capitalism showing up in the country I am living from in different businesses, as the CEO and board of directors usually decides a lot of the things. It is important and interesting how potential experts like sales people who know the ideal price of something can only advise the head of the company for the final decision of thigns like price.

  2. Nov 2024
    1. The new age of social media has caused many new terms to be created that may not have existed before but refer to old words that may have been filtered, so social medai sites should adapt to these new terms quickly

    2. It's ssad and tough how the Internet has made public shaming so much easier and it can take a real toll on the targets

    1. This part caught my eye, as tracking is actually considered harrassment. It's a big thing that as users we sometimes blindly allows tracking on apps that we use, and that could be considered harrassment in some way if we weren't aware.

    1. It's interesting that the definitieon suggests someone hurtful but not enough to be legally proscribed, as I thought harrassment led to arrestments in the past

    1. It's interesting how the impact of technology has caused a word like "crowdsourcing" to be created even though this method of action where people come together to contribute to something has existed long before.

    1. This part is interesting as a question that I have from reading is that since crowdsourcing is many people making an effort and contributing to something bigger, would things like fundraisers on GoFundMe count as crowdsoourcing?

    1. It is shown here that websites don't pay their moderators and moderators sometimes have to go through stuff and filter things. It is curious to me how the websites choose their moderators in this case.

    1. That means that the bots that we program in this class sometimes create content that is considered "spam" hence why Reddit chooses to ban our bots. Without tis quality control the subreddits would probably be filled with content that regular users outside the info 103 class don't want to see

    1. A detector for mental health, along with a way to help solve or reduce it will likely follow the ethical frameworks well, especially if a systemis honest, for example. That would great follow frameworks like virtue ethics for example

    1. Personally, social media has impacted me in a way that it makes me feel the need to detox from it every now nd then, as it's an unhealthy feeling to just be doom scrolling on it.

    1. While memes reproduce something that is existing,turns the purpose into something new, changing it, and taking some new form, it's an interesting question to wonder if it is considred replication or not since we are re-showing something to the audience but in a new way

    1. People sometimes see replication as copying and illegal, but they don't think carefully that something as simple as retweeting and commenting is still considered replication, even if you add your ownoriginal thought to something. You are still making the content seen by more people.

  3. Oct 2024
    1. Recommendations can either go well or poorly, and the result can be decided by different users of the application or platform. That's why it's important to design things for users rather than for the designer itself 9in order to try and tip the scales to be in favor of "going well' for the algorithm.

    1. A lot of the times, where similar platforms or programs compete against each other, it's usually a thing in time where these companies that are ompeting are really trying to just have the better algorithm, which determines a l0ot of their fate.

    1. It's important to make sure you are designing the product for people who are going to be using your product thoughtfully. If you design it for yourself, you'll usually end up forgetting important details that will affect how others using your design will perceive.

    1. It something worth thinking about that people with disabilities like autism are accomodated for kindly and thoughtfully if designing something for them, as it is something that could determine if we are being "ethical to them" or not.

    1. This part raises an important point; If the purpose of data mining is usually to use data and present it in a way that gies insights and understandings, what would the point of having online surveys that use fake data and poisoning be as it will generate an inaccurate data representation?

    1. This part is interesting about raising socil media, as it potentially let's us know abput the rough definitiion and meaning of data mining which is using data to present it in a way

    1. It's dangerous to see how for the sake of entertainment or trying to make other people think one is witty that they are playing along with unethical actions

    1. Its interesting how hazing is assumed to be physcially abusing usually but there is also a digital version of it which both cause damage

    1. This part shows that parasocial relationships can be both authentic and unauthetic, it really depends on the ethics and morale behind the person. Like the Mr Rogers situation, it also shows how the same thing can be considered both authentic or unauthentic based on the person viewing (Jessica vs the author)

    1. This line kind of insists the idea that authenticity can vary based on the person, and that some people consider something to be unauthentic while others believe the same ting is.

    1. Many of these early social media sites were used to promote profiles for work mainly, not to post fun content. YouTube was also a self promotion site rather than a way to post entertainment and make money from it.

    1. One of the early ways of social communication across the internet was with Email, which originated in the 1960s and 1970s. These allowed people to send messages to each other, and look up if any new messages had been sent to them.

      It's also interesting to know that the first ever version of the internet was just a connection of multiple computers at first and then evolved into this network where users could only read, to now doing so many stuff with it.

    1. This part makes me wonder if when we place constraints in the python language, how the syntax would look like. Another thing that I wonder about here is what makes a string with letters like "a" different from emojis in the makeup.

    1. H”, “A”, “P”, “P”, “Y”, ” “, “B”, “I”, “R”, “T”, “H”, “D”, “A”, “Y”.

      It's interesting that from the human perspective we are just spelling out the word "Happy Birthday" as a whole, but never come to realize or pay attention to the fact that the string is actually a combination of the different letters taht make up the word.

    1. Putting the subject I before the verb was Ending the sentence with a period . Making a parenthetical remark with a matching opening parenthesis ( and closing parenthesis ). This parenthetical remark clarified the part of the sentence before it UW.

      In my opinion, this passage does a very good job of explainning the anatomy of a bot. A simple sentence like "I was at UW (University of Washington, Seattle) yesterday seems like such a simple sentence with no content to it but if you look deeper in a more detailed approach, you can see the different elements that it contains, including the order of words and clarifications. This shows how bots from the outside do a very simple thing repetitively but their anatomy inside is actually pretty detailed and needs thorough thought given to their making.

    1. Fig. 3.1 A photo that is likely from a click-farm, where a human computer is paid to do actions through multiple accounts, such as like a post or rate an app. For our purposes here, we consider this a type of automation, but we are not considering this a “bot,” since it is not using (electrical) computer programming.

      This part of the chapter is really interesting for me, as in my opinion I would think this is basiccally a bot. This is because the person hired is supposed to keep tapping from different devices to boost ratings of an app all day, and is essentially doing it for a whole day. However, the interesting part raised is how "bots" have to be electrical and have to use computer programming, instead of the effect or results achieved

    1. something involving computers (or smartphones), the internet, communication, and networks of connected people.

      The paragraph above shows the various different forms of definitions that "social media" can encompass, linking everything related to communication to be a form of social media. However, in this bare bone definition, social media was supposed to be computers and communication. This potentially is interesting to see how this class would be structured if social media were to be based on the first definition.

    1. Being and becoming an exemplary person (e.g., benevolent; sincere; honoring and sacrificing to ancestors; respectful to parents, elders and authorities, taking care of children and the young; generous to family and others). These traits are often performed and achieved through ceremonies and rituals (including sacrificing to ancestors, music, and tea drinking), resulting in a harmonious society.

      This is interesting how at that point in time the standards for being an exemplary person is now related to academics and being a good/kind person overall, instead of killing other nations as honor for your country determining if you are exemplary or not.