Breaking Out of Filter Bubbles

Phase VIII: A Simpler Research Plan to Confirm the Filter Bubble

Essentially, all I need to prove at this exploratory stage is that people do perpetuate their own filter bubbles. I would then take that proof and go work on my initial rapid prototypes to user test with.

Phase VII: Preliminary Research Plan (Filter Bubble Edition)

Study ideation #1:

1. First, ask the participants where they think they lie in either of these matrixes (the two serve different purposes, and I’m leaning more towards the first one, as it’s…

Why tackle Filter Bubbles, you ask?

Post-Election Pivot & Honing in on Social Media Platforms

Phase V: Research Plan for Transparency in Google Search

Abstract update

With the digitization of our everyday lives comes needs and implications that no one has considered before. Machine Learning algorithms are defining every minutiae of our lives…

Phase IV: Narrowing the Context

I now know that I want to work on something related to making the workings of algorithm models more transparent and fair — below is a short list of specific contexts that I’ll explore.

• In the field of e-commerce such as Amazon or Staples, there’s…

Phase III: Philosophical Foundation

Among the readings we’d done at Seminar III, four philosophers’ ideas stood out to me as especially relevant to the context of algorithm models (AM):

• Michel Foucault, and Steven Dorrestjin’s interpretation of Foucault’s writings on…