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Andres Alvarez
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Sep 16 2020
A week without Google or Facebook
I’ve spent the past few years off of Facebook after I canceled my account to escape the anxiety that I felt it was giving me. I only rejoined in the past few weeks because my community board only meets on a Facebook page for this rural Florida town that I own property in. I deliberately …
Sep 16 2020
Search Engine Designs & Info Overload
Yahoo & Bing search engines failed in their respective challenges to Google, so I don’t anticipate my own engine to do any better. When it comes to addressing privacy and the monetization of web-tracking, I would have more interest in using whatever information has been aggregated, to present closer search results for the user. Presenting …
Sep 16 2020
Are the tools of digital media impeding or expanding our knowledge?
I feel as though digital media both impede and expands our knowledge; on a personal level as well as the human collective. Recent world reactions to the George Floyd-BlackLivesMatter movement and the global response to the pandemic are fantastic examples of how social media expands our knowledge collectively. The google opt-out satirical video poked fun …
