In my New Media class I learned that was due to the use of algorithms that multiple websites employed. Seeing how my past searches and location services affected my internet experience was initially strange but I soon became used to the seemingly omnipresent aspect of the internet. I have grown accustomed to having everything around me be the most convenient version of itself so I expected nothing less from the internet. Growing up in the 21st century, I have been surrounded by advancing technology for my entire life. I wanted to take a closer look at this because I had never even heard of algorithms or filter bubbles and I definitely did not know how they affected my everyday internet experience. For my digital artifact I decided to look at the filter bubbles and how google results can vary due to the algorithmic patterns such as recent searches, location services, and demographic information. If algorithms used all of this information, doesn’t that just mean that my internet experience will be crafted to perfection? After sitting in lectures and doing my own research, I learned that while the idea of an internet experience that was “crafted to perfection” might have been the intention, it was not the outcome of algorithm use today. Even once I discovered this, surprisingly it did not bother me as much as it probably should have. Little did I know, algorithms use information we put out to determine exactly what we see on our screens. I could not imagine that they really had that much of an impact and even if they did it would most likely be for our own benefit. How Computer Algorithms Affect our Internet Experience- A LevelĪfter learning about algorithms in my New Media class, I was curious to see how much they really affect our everyday internet use.
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