Algorithms shape our beliefs
Notes and ideas for my dissertation on privacy, filter bubbles and digital democracy
Algorithms shape our beliefs
It includes different recommendation algorithms and social network dynamics. Cognitive filters are based on the Triple Filter Bubble model
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Privacy: AI can access enormous amounts of data about individuals and process it with incredible speed. AI can make predictions about a person’s behaviour, state of mind, and identity by sensing information that is not necessarily considered personal or private, such as facial expressions, heart rate, physical location, and other seemingly mundane... See more
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Democratizing this subscription-based future will enable more writers to earn more money by writing about what truly matters. It puts the media’s destiny into the right hands.
Substack Blog • A Better Future for News
Democratizing this subscription-based future will enable more writers to earn more money by writing about what truly matters. It puts the media’s destiny into the right hands.
. We argue that an interdisciplinary effort integrating insights from social, economic, psychological, political and computational sciences, as well as the application of formal modelling and rigorous empirical testing, is essential to realize impactful digital democracy that can gain the trust of citizens
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Twitter makes money from your attention, so they need to compel your attention. Sometimes that leads to good things, like connecting you to people and ideas that matter. But it also means that the addiction, abuse, and outrage that thrive on Twitter and other social platforms may be impossible to eradicate. So what’s left to do? You can change the... See more
Nathan Baschez • Substack’s Ideology
Twitter makes money from your attention, so they need to compel your attention. Sometimes that leads to good things, like connecting you to people and ideas that matter. But it also means that the addiction, abuse, and outrage that thrive on Twitter and other social platforms may be impossible to eradicate. So what’s left to do? You can change the rules. That’s why we started Substack: when readers pay writers directly, it’s a whole new game.
Without independent public interest research and rigorous controls from regulators, it is impossible to know whether Instagram’s algorithms favors specific political opinions over others.
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His theory of political liberalism explores the legitimate use of political power in a democracy, and envisions how civic unity might endure despite the diversity of worldviews that free institutions allow.