{"id":29,"date":"2011-05-23T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/?p=29"},"modified":"2011-05-23T20:31:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T00:31:19","slug":"when_internet_thinks_for_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/2011\/05\/23\/when_internet_thinks_for_you\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Internet thinks for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting\u00a0Op-Ed in today&#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 &#8220;Ignorance is Bliss&#8221;<\/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>&#8220;There is a new group of gatekeepers in town, and this time, they\u2019re not people, they\u2019re code.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Jon Crowcroft&#8217;s talk at BU earlier this month, I hinted to this issue &#8212; getting information through a social network reduces entropy &#8212; and alluded to the need for better &#8220;personalization&#8221; technology and algorithmics. Pariser&#8217;s point is that we should not trust editorial responsibility (the control of information flow)\u00a0to code. If we do, then the Internet would have turned things around\u00a0360 degrees &#8212; by allowing us to bypass &#8220;an elite class of editors&#8221;, only to let code decide what people would see and hear about the world.<\/p>\n<p>Related to\u00a0(and influencing my thinking about)\u00a0the above is the long-held position that <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2000\/01\/code-is-law.html\">&#8220;Code is Law&#8221; 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\u00a0Op-Ed in today&#8217;s NYT, which touches on the point I made in my earlier post entitled &#8220;Ignorance is Bliss&#8221;. 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: &#8220;There 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\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}