Chapter 4 lesson 5 The filterbubble

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What kind of things make you get more followers in the badnews game?

Upload your fake news.

lesson task

Stand up.

Stand = fact

Sit down = opinion

about 5 minutes.

Fact

A fact is an event or circumstance whose reality is fixed, in that it can be either sensually observed or instrumentally measured.

Opinion

Something that is so according to you based on your own experience

Grab your phone or other personal device and search on Egypt. What are your first 5 results? Write them down below one and other

The filter bubble

A filter bubble is created by the companies that make search engines, websites and social media. To do this, they use cookies and algorithms.

Cookies are small computer programs that remember what you have searched for, what you have liked, what you have bought online. By remembering all this information, these companies know exactly what you like.

An algorithm uses the cookies to determine which search results and posts you will see. 

Examples:

 news you feel comfortable with, or which fits you well (your frame of reference)

vraag leerlingen om een voorbeeld van zo'n filterbubble

en in feite even een lubachje laten zien: nieuwe browser, geen cookies en go

Frame of reference

Everything you see, experience, have learned, are, do, think is normal, have done.

When you receive news about something that doesn't fit the frame of reference you'll need to solve this. Some people state: FAKENEWS! 

The problem

Seeing something comes from: sharing/liking

Extreme = more attention --> more sharing and likes.

What makes you see it.

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Polarisation: your own opinion gets stronger without the other opinion

Homework

1. Watch Arjen Lubach's explanation of the filter bubble and try to do for yourself what Arjen is doing. What happens to you?

2. What information have you ever heard that did not fit into your frame of reference?

3. Keep track of which search terms suddenly appear in advertisements or other things.

Filterbubbel : Wat kun je er tegen doen?

• Verwijder cookies in je webbrowser.
• Sla je zoekgeschiedenis niet op.
• Gebruik een anonieme zoekmachine zoals Duckduckgo.com (deze bouwen geen profiel van jouw zoekresultaten.
• Gebruik veel verschillende bronnen en websites.