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Month: March 2017

I’m looking to put together a photo story/diary for my final assignment. What tools would you recommend? Thanks! #mscedc

I’m looking to put together a photo story/diary for my final assignment. What tools would you recommend? Thanks! #mscedc

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@philip_downey #mscedc https://t.co/qI6QtkHGhc

@philip_downey #mscedc https://t.co/qI6QtkHGhc

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There’s so much about our cyberculture represented in this one image:

The tattoos are brilliant: ‘It’s alive’, ‘Born dead’, ‘Living dead girl’.

She’s looking at him longingly; can cyborgs fall in love?

Why would a cyborg smoke?

Why wouldn’t a cyborg smoke?

What does the flame represent? The ‘spark of being‘? A symbol of humanity? A representation of the binary?

@Eli_App_D an assignment on kitchen technologies perhaps? Culinary cyberspaces? #mscedc

@Eli_App_D an assignment on kitchen technologies perhaps? Culinary cyberspaces? #mscedc

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It’s interesting to think that this course has, itself, become another digital strand which is woven into the complexity of the quotidien. I appreciate how the digital media we use offers us slivers of insights into others’ lives. Seeing James’ son in the background of a weekly video introduction,  watching Daniel drum in his room, and hearing about Eli’s new kitchen on Twitter: these glimpses into the ‘real’ help, I think, to develop our community of inquiry.

“We’re trying to create our own love story between people and content,” https://t.co/CB4BYN5RUV #mscedc

“We’re trying to create our own love story between people and content,” https://t.co/CB4BYN5RUV #mscedc

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“Some of that data is junk, some of it is gold and we figure out how to leverage that data to put the right content in front of the right people at the right time.”

Yes. Well done Netflix.

Testing whether algorithms contain hidden biases: https://t.co/xqq7tWPxi8 #mscedc

Testing whether algorithms contain hidden biases: https://t.co/xqq7tWPxi8 #mscedc

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Interesting research on how algorithmic bias might be countered.

“An algorithm has experiences, just as a person comes into life and has experiences.” http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/computer-scientists-find-bias-in-algorithms