INTS 249 Digital Literacy

Mar 21, 2019

Data Detox Day 6: App Cleanse

For day six in the Data Detox Journal, the main goal was to do an app cleanse of our phones. First, I was asked to guess how many apps I think I had on my phone and I guessed 55, but when I counted them, I found out I had 75 apps including the ones that come preloaded on my…

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Apr 29, 2019

Should copyright laws be done away with?

The United States copyright law protects original works of authorship, or in other words…

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Mar 15, 2019

Data Detox 2: Is Google Your BFF?

The purpose of the second day of the data detox journal was to compare what you do and the information you share and search for on the internet and if you share all of that with your best friend. For me, it was about half and half, many of the things I look for and…

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Apr 2, 2019

Is Microwork Worth the Trouble?

Microwork is simply defined as when a number of people band together to complete a large task with each…

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Mar 18, 2019

Data Detox 4: Confusing Trackers

The purpose of the fourth day of the data detox journal was to detox our browsers. I use Google Chrome and what they had us do was to set our browser to incognito mode and then keep it there permanently. When I switched my browser to incognito mode however, I was unable…

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Mar 22, 2019

Data Detox 7: Does Google Know You?

In day seven of the Data Detox Journal was all about finding out how “Google sees you”. The first thing I was asked to do was to go to the ad settings in Google and see how accurate Google’s algorithms are. Looking through the ads, a couple seemed to be pretty spot…