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Don’t Be Evil
Student Perspectives is our series of guest posts written by current CityLIS students. This post is written by current CityLIS student Hilary Jordan. She discusses the biases embedded in search algorithms and the importance of remembering the human factor when … Continue reading
Posted in Student Perspectives
Tagged #CambridgeAnalytica, algorithms, fake news, Google
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CityLIS Reflections and Research: Why LIS doesn’t have a quick fix for the post-factual society … and why that’s OK by David Bawden
This CityLIS Reflections and Research post is by David Bawden and how Library and Information Science can help in a post-factual society. *** The irony is that by now it was supposed to be perfect. For most of my working … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged alternative facts, blogging, CityLIS, danah boyd, fake news, filter bubbles, Georgina Cronin, information access, information behaviour, information literacy, Information Science, Karl popper, Libraries, Library and Information Science, Library Science, LIS, Luciano Floridi, Lyn Robinson, post-factual society, post-truth, research, The Information Society, understanding
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