{"id":4,"date":"2011-05-23T12:32:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T16:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/?p=4"},"modified":"2011-09-05T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T13:44:53","slug":"when-the-internet-thinks-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"When the Internet thinks for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting Op-Ed in\u00a0today&#8217;s NYT, which touches on the point I made in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/2011\/05\/18\/ignorance-is-bliss\/\">my earlier post entitled \u201cIgnorance is Bliss\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/23\/opinion\/23pariser.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/23\/opinion\/23pariser.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>I have been harping on this for a while, but Eli Pariser (of MoveOn.org) puts it very eloquently: <em>\u201cThere is a new group of gatekeepers in town, and this time, they\u2019re not people, they\u2019re code.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Jon Crowcroft\u2019s talk at BU earlier this month, I hinted to this issue \u2014 getting information through a social network reduces entropy \u2014 and alluded to the need for better \u201cpersonalization\u201d technology and algorithmics. Pariser\u2019s point is that we should not trust editorial responsibility (the control of information flow) to code. If we do, then the Internet would have turned things around 360 degrees \u2014 by allowing us to bypass \u201can elite class of editors\u201d, only to let code decide what people would see and hear about the world.<\/p>\n<p>Related to (and influencing my thinking about) the above is the long-held position that <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2000\/01\/code-is-law.html\">\u201cCode is Law\u201d by Lawrence Lessig<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Computer Science is quickly becoming a social science!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting Op-Ed in\u00a0today&#8217;s NYT, which touches on the point I made in my earlier post entitled \u201cIgnorance is Bliss\u201d. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/23\/opinion\/23pariser.html I have been harping on this for a while, but Eli Pariser (of MoveOn.org) puts it very eloquently: \u201cThere is a new group of gatekeepers in town, and this time, they\u2019re not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}