Are Algorithms Dividing Everyone into Separate Realities Online?
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The latest TSM video is another piece in the ongoing discussion about the acute effects that social media are having on our societal development, and the programming of individuals.
Is the world you are being presented online crafted to be vastly different from the person sitting right next to you in physical reality? Do people even realize this is what algorithms are doing to us all? Many have rightfully pointed out how we appear more divided than ever, but the first step to taking that wizardry down a notch is acknowledging what is actually happening out there for what it is. Love you guys. WATCH VIDEO VIA YOUTUBE
As everything gets more ridiculous in the present stream of media and politics, a new wave is being built. A generation which is subtly built upon the calculated effects of the algorithms driving social media in particular.
The way we see the world may be different from our friends, family and neighbors; that we understand. But as we try to present our side of things, or gain insight into the perspectives of others, the landscape where those conversations occur is becoming more and more of an Ames experimental room where skewed perception is the basis of analysis, and the cornerstone of communication.
As we try to interpret and function in our technological world, our primary senses offer less and less to help us interpret our surroundings, read the mood of the room, or take accurate readings of the barometer of public opinion. The window of acceptable viewpoints; the range of common and popular opinions, and their relation to core principles or towards desirable directions are all out of whack -- just as the carnival-clowns designed it to be: a lousy, rigged game, good for goofy laughs like the distorted mirrors operating next to them.
We are now navigating a digital space where our biases are amplified; groupthink is hiveminding; dissent is potentially rendered invisible, or worse completely self-contained in a bubble composed only of fellow dissenters; tilting at windmills is the norm.
At least if we see through it, give it a name, and identify its influences, we can hope to keep such forces in check...
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