{"id":56,"date":"2012-04-18T20:25:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T00:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annawahrman.com\/wp\/?p=56"},"modified":"2012-04-18T20:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T00:25:04","slug":"personalization-by-way-of-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/personalization-by-way-of-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalization by way of automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting peek at what happens when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/04\/the-day-yahoo-decided-i-liked-reading-about-child-murder\/255970\" target=\"_blank\">personalization<\/a> by way of automation and algorithms takes a dark turn.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Unlike tabloid television, algorithmic         personalization does not announce that it&#8217;s pandering to base  interests. When sensationalized reports about violence against children  are on TV, I can         change the channel &#8212; an act that is harder to do on the  Internet when seemingly &#8216;neutral&#8217; spaces, like Yahoo&#8217;s homepage, leave  no tell-tale trace of         manipulation. \u00a0You can&#8217;t change the channel when you don&#8217;t know  you&#8217;re watching the program.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another argument in favor of the human curator (read: editor) as we stumble through sorting out what can be programmed, what should  never be, and where the middle ground is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting peek at what happens when personalization by way of automation and algorithms takes a dark turn. &#8220;Unlike tabloid television, algorithmic personalization does not announce that it&#8217;s pandering to base interests. When sensationalized reports about violence against children are on TV, I can change the channel &#8212; an act that is harder to do on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[14,17,20,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}