SM 101
False or inaccurate information which is spread regardless of intention
What is misinformation?
An environment in which a person encounters only beliefs or opinions that coincide with the own so that their existing views are reinforced and alternative ideas are not considered.
What is an echo chamber?
Also acceptable: what is a rabbit hole or what is an information bubble.
Information that can be linked to an individual such as a phone number or IP address.
What is personal data?
A prejudice, inclination, or tendency towards a thing
What is bias?
This tech entrepreneur started Facebook as a means to rate student attractiveness while attending this university.
(This question has 2 answers)
Who is Mark Zuckerberg and what is Harvard?
A photo that one has taken of oneself, especially to share on social media
What is a selfie?
Content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage users to click on a link on a particular web page.
What is click bait?
The term for a video or presentation enhanced by artificial intelligence to present falsified results
What is a deep fake?
An online attack in which hackers dig up private and personal information and documents and publish it on the Internet to expose someone's identity.
What is doxing?
FB was originally targeted to which demographic?
What is Ivy League college kids.
To carefully chose, organize and select something for presentation on social media
What is to curate?
This prohibits the US government from limiting freedoms of speech, press, religion, and assembly.
What is the First Ammendment?
In computer programming, the set of instructions that defines what needs to be done and how to do it.
What is an algorithm?
She is the first black woman to be appointed to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
One of the first online communication companies, which alerted it's users with the phrase, You've got mail!
Who or what is AOL or America Online?
False or inaccurate information which is deliberately intended to deceive
What is disinformation?
A belief that some covert but influential organization is responsible for an event or an explanation that rejects the standard interpretation of an event.
What is a conspiracy theory?
The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as speech recognition, visual perception, and language translation -- also, the name of a 2001 science fiction movie directed by Stephen Spielberg
What is AI or artificial intelligence?
It's the primary way social media companies make money.
What is advertising?
Also acceptable: harvesting and selling your personal data.
The number to forward suspicious texts to on ATT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.
What is 7726
It's the reason apps are free.
You are the product.
(Also acceptable: "we" are the product)
When we are attracted to facts and support ideas that confirm what we already believe.
What is confirmation bias?
Computer networks that process information, learn from experience, identify patterns, and use previously solved examples to make new decisions.
What is machine learning?
The term coined by Shoshana Zuboff that describes an economic system in which human experience is a commodity.
What is surveillance capitalism?
He is in exile in Russia for blowing the whistle on the US Government's mass collection of citizens personal data.
Who is Edward Snowden?