Dona Gelsinger. Sacred Heart of Jesus Canvas Wall Art. URL: https://www.glowdecor.com/products/sacred-heart-of-jesus-canvas-wall-art (visited on 2023-12-08).
This website talks about The Sacred Heart of Jesus is an important devotion in the Catholic Church, symbolizing God's infinite love and mercy for humanity. This devotion originates from medieval mysticism and is celebrated annually on the third Friday after Pentecost.
The book Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years [l6] describes how, before the printing press, when someone wanted a book, they had to find someone who had a copy and have a scribe make a copy. So books that were popular spread through people having scribes copy each other’s books. And with all this copying, there might be different versions of the book spreading around, because of scribal copying errors, added notes, or even the original author making an updated copy. So we can look at the evolution of these books: which got copied, and how they changed over time.
This reminds me that, before the printing press, the version of book might be slightly different due to the error of coping. This might cause the misunderstanding for the past people. Also the way of approaching a book was pretty hard, and this limit the spread of knowledge in ancient time.
Systemic bias. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1185361788. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Systemic_bias&oldid=1185361788 (visited on 2023-12-07).
This article basically talks about the definition and the impact of systemic bias. This bias usually comes from the education and occupation field. It impacts a lot people even when people did not do anything.
Some recommendation algorithms can be simple such as reverse chronological order, meaning it shows users the latest posts (like how blogs work, or Twitter’s “See latest tweets” option). They can also be very complicated taking into account many factors, such as:
These algorithms help users to get a better using experience. Without the algorithms, the users might find out the app or the platform is boring. Some of the algorithms can be so complicate, and it gathers most information and data on your platform to perform a better using experience.
Ableism. December 2023. Page Version ID: 1188412565. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ableism&oldid=1188412565 (visited on 2023-12-07).
This article basically talks about ableism and disablism. It refers to the discrimination against people with the physical or mental disabilities. It talks about the stereotypes such assuming all the people that are disabled want to be cured.
A disability is an ability that a person doesn’t have, but that their society expects them to have.[1] For example:
I personally like this version of the definition of disability, and the disability is a general meaning for the society. In this case, the people with disability will not feel offended anymore.
Right to privacy. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1186826760. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Right_to_privacy&oldid=1186826760 (visited on 2023-12-05).
This article talks about the right to privacy, and everyone in this country has the right to privacy on the internet. The internet should protect users' privacy. This right encourage more users to participate in any social media. I personally agree with this right, and I feel safe with the right to privacy.
We might want to discuss something privately, avoiding embarrassment that might happen if it were shared publicly
I agree that this is a good reason that we have to keep information private. Without privacy, every conversation will be public, and nobody wants to show all of their messages to the people around the world. Therefore, privacy gives users reassuring environment to discuss.
Web tracking. October 2023. Page Version ID: 1181294364. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_tracking&oldid=1181294364 (visited on 2023-12-05).
According to my personal experience, I have noticed the power of web tracking. First of all, the web tracking helps analyzers to collect information of the users. The searching engine do have the memories of the searching history. When I searching something on either websites or apps, the engine remembered my perferences. Next time when I logged in to my searching engine, it will automatically provides you the news or videos that you like.
Online advertisers can see what pages their ads are being requested on, and track users [h1] across those sites. So, if an advertiser sees their ad is being displayed on an Amazon page for shoes, then the advertiser can start showing shoe ads to that same user when they go to another website.
By using this type of strategy, online advertising became more accurate and appealing. The advertiser will also display the most useful ads to the users when they switched websites. Most websites and apps track and collects users' information and analyze users' personal preferences. In such way, the advertisers provide most high quality ads for users.
Troll (slang). December 2023. Page Version ID: 1188437550. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Troll_(slang)&oldid=1188437550 (visited on 2023-12-05).
This article basically talks about the definition of troll, and how would people define troll online and in real life. I personally dislike this behavior because it would harm people intentionally. Trolls did not actually consider others feelings, and they also want to show how smart they are. This will make the trolls feel good by showing how much knowledge they know.
Feeling Smart: Going with the gatekeeping role above, trolling can make a troll or observer feel smarter than others, since they are able to see that it is trolling while others don’t realize it.
Most of trolls like the feeling of being smart, and sometimes it is easy to troll something when there are lots of resources on the internet. The trolls have enough time to get prepared, and this is the mean reason why trolls know everything. Being smart make the trolls feel good, and once they have this feeling, they will continue to troll.
Authentic connections frequently place high value on a sense of proximity and intimacy. Someone who pretends to be your friend, but does not spend time with you (proximity) or does not open themselves up to trusting mutual interdependence (intimacy) is offering one kind of connection (being an acquaintance) under the guise of a different kind of connection (friendship).
I personally agree this idea, and I also think that people that like to spend their time and money into the relationships actually care about each others more than the people that do not want to invest anything into their relationship. In addition, I think proximity and intimacy should be based on trust. If people do not trust each other, they will not get authentic relationships.
Alannah Oleson. Beyond “Average” Users: Building Inclusive Design Skills with the CIDER Technique. Bits and Behavior, October 2022. URL: https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/beyond-average-users-building-inclusive-design-skills-with-the-cider-technique-413969544e6d (visited on 2023-11-24).
This article basically talked about the design technique which was called CIDER. There are five stages in CIDER, and this technique tried to help users to think beyond "average" user .The five letters meant Critique, Imagine, Design, Expand, Repeat. After I read this article, I learned CIDER played an important role in learners and creators.
Scrolling. October 2023. Page Version ID: 1179993722. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scrolling&oldid=1179993722#Infinite_scrolling (visited on 2023-11-24).
This article introduces the definition of scrolling and different types of scrolling. I was not trying to pay attention to the scrolling when I was viewing the website or watching a TV show. After I read this article, I found out how useful the scrolling was.
In order to loop a set number of times, we can use the range function to effectively make a list of numbers to go over, so we can loop that many times. For example, if we wanted to ask “Are we there yet?” repeatedly, 10 times, we can do this:
This saved lots of time when I was programming in Java and Python. The loop can save lots of time, and programmers do not need to repeat for so many times. We can even use the for loop for counting numbers and print something with patterns.
Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana. Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7914-8003-8. URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/163/monograph/book/5200 (visited on 2024-04-01).
This article introduces a book that generally talks about the connection between ignorance and racism. The gap for knowledge is not the only reason causes the racism, and the main reason is the accidental result of epistemological oversight.
So we can make a list of the numbers from 1 to 10: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
List is very convenient for the programers. We can store as many number we want into the list. When we want to use the specific number inside the list, we can just state the location of that number in the list. Also, if you want to add more into the list, it is also flexible for programmers.
Does the fact that it is a bot change how you feel about its actions?
Yes, I do think the fact that it is a bit change my felling about its actions. Sometimes, people will more likely to think that a bot is more depersonalized and mechanic. The bot cannot understand real humans' feelings. I feel like I would like to see more real posts rather than bots' posts.
Python While Loops. February 2021. URL: https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_while_loops.asp (visited on 2023-11-17).
Personally, I enjoyed using while looping during the computer science class in high school. While loop saves lots of time for programmers. It keeps doing the instructions if the requirements are met. It has a same idea in Java, while loop execute the instructions. With while loop, programmers do not need to repeat the code over and over again.
So how do people turn their ideas into binary computer instructions?
Personally, I think people turn their ideas into the binary computer instruction by programming. The people who do the programming part are called programmers. Programmers use different programming languages such as Java, Python,C++ etc..
Zhuangzi [b23] Zhuangzi ~300 BCE China
I've learned the story about Zhuangzi when I was in primary school. The story about the perspective of fish actually follow the core of Taoism. Zhuangzi and his friend argued about if Zhuangzi knew the fishes feeling. His friend said Zhuangzi was not fish and how can he know fishes feeling if he was not a fish. However, Zhuangzi said his friend was not Zhuangzi himself, and how can Zhuangzi's friend know Zhuangzi's feeling without being Zhuangzi. This story tells us we cannot know others' perspectives are wrong without being that themselves.