Social Media and Data Collection
Author and professor Zeynep Tufekci explains how algorithms used by social media sites can make inferences about users and how that can impact the public.
Description
Author and professor Zeynep Tufekci explains how algorithms used by social media sites can make inferences about users and how that can impact the public.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- According to Zeynep Tufekci, what determinations can algorithms conclude as they collect data?
- How can this impact users?
- Zeynep Tufekci says, "You can't have something this potent be this unregulated on what it's supposed to be doing." Do you agree or disagree? Explain your position.
Additional Resources
- How Social Media Uses Algorithms
Author and professor Zeynep Tufekci explains how social media sites use algorithms to deliver information to users
- Lesson Plan: Senate and House Facebook Hearings
This lesson breaks up the hearing into three issues that students can research and discuss as a class. The themes include: how Facebook reviews and restricts content, how Facebook uses user date to sell advertisements, and if the issues with Facebook and other similar platforms should be regulated by the government.
Participants
Vocabulary
- Algorithm
- Computational
- Data
- Infer
- Privacy Policy