Algorithms
An automated mathematical equation that decides which posts are at the top of your feed.
What is a social media algorithm?
The approximate percentage of internet users that choose Google as their primary search engine.
What is 90%?
News, articles, tv, movies, books, textbooks, social media, songs, paintings, poems, video games, podcasts, etc.
What is media?
Mark Zuckerberg et al.
The average percentage of their day that teenagers spend on social media.
What is 33%?
So long as algorithms are written by humans, these will be present in the algorithms.
What are flaws and biases?
Who are Larry Page and Sergey Brin?
Widely-distributed media.
What is The Media?
Someone who gains a significant following on social media and has the ability to make money from social media.
What is an influencer?
Instagram's algorithm used to do this.
What is showing posts in order of date and time posted?
Google's motto.
What is "don't be evil?"
The ability to critically understand the nature, techniques, and impacts of media.
What is media literacy?
The dramatic, semi-exaggerated movie made about the beginnings of Facebook.
What is The Social Network?
The most popular social media platforms in this class.
What is Instagram and TikTok?
An algorithm used by Google to rank web pages in their search engine results.
What is PageRank?
Who is Robert Epstein?
The quality of being trusted and believed.
What is credibility?
What is filtering out conservative news?
The most-followed individual on Instagram.
Who is Cristiano Ronaldo?
One of the most problematic algorithms on social media today. This platform is constantly criticized for its algorithm by its own creators.
What is the YouTube algorithm?
The change in consumer preferences from manipulations of search results by search engine providers.
What is search engine manipulation effect?
The five questions you need to ask yourself when looking at a piece of media to determine its credibility.
What are critique questions?
The law that Senator Ted Cruz cited when asking Mark Zuckerberg whether his platform was a neutral public platform or not.
What is Section 230?
My favourite social media site.
What is YouTube?