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 their so that their existing views are reinforced and alternative ideas are not considered.
What is an echo chamber? [or] what is a filter bubble [or what is a rabbit hole]
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?
Tech entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook while attending this university.
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?
It's the most popular social media app on the web
What is Facebook?
It's still the most widely used social media platform.
What is Facebook?
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?
The name of the company that owns Google
What is Alphabet?
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 business model where the user's attention is the product and this product is sold to advertisers or other buyers.
What is the attention economy [or] the distraction economy?
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?
This Massachusetts news sharing company allows its users to Upvote and Downvote content.
What is Reddit
She texted her boyfriend to "get back in the car."
Who is Michelle Carter?
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?
True or false, social media is seen as the cause of an uptick in anxiety among young people
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?