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Through Forensic Linguistics
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(thanks to Charles Willock )
For those looking for an easy-to-understand introduction to /discussion of, personal data tracking and use it for raising awareness of non-computer students the following items could be useful: (Listen from these pages)
Algorithm awareness, Sunday, September 21, 2014
Christian Sandvig (09:23)
http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2014/09/21/algorithm-awareness/
“Why Twitter Should Not Algorithmically Curate the Timeline”
Zeynep Tufekci (08:48)
http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2014/09/21/twitter-algorithms/
They outline use by Facebook, Google, and potentially Twitter of algorithms to filter content presented to users and the general lack of awareness of the existance of that software by users.