Difference between revisions of "Talk:Rachel Chang"

Latest revision as of 18:48, 20 February 2019

I enjoyed the flow of your statement--the direct tone and use of succinct sentences made it easy for me to follow along and I could hear much of your personal voice with the reactions you had to the information you found. Structure-wise, your ideas are sectioned off well, though it could help to break up some of the paragraphs so they're not in very large blocks.

I was also interested in the discussion you brought up on the facial recognition and search algorithms, drawing connections with your experience with them through Facebook and Amazon. Maybe a screenshot of your differing Amazon purchases compared to your family or a photo of the number of search hits you obtain when you search your name can add visual emphasis to both the points you made about breaking the algorithm/having a very common name.

Additionally, I would recommend having some kind of overall conclusion discussing how these different sources of information come together to make your online data profile, and how that could impact your future (as you had touched on with concerns for your safety, and with future employment). This would help specify what you are arguing.

Best,
Natalie Lampa (nlampa)

Commenter: Nikita Badhwar (nbadhwar)

Hi Rachel!

I really enjoyed your article, your intro really caught my attention. The fact that you deleted all of your social media made me very curious to see what searches you would find of yourself. I thought it was really interesting that you talked about sites like Amazon just because that's not normally a profile that immediately comes up when you search yourself. Overall you talk about how you've distanced yourself from social media but how there are still different applications that have information about you. My only suggestion would be to elaborate on this idea more, and maybe find a more overarching thesis. Despite distancing yourself from social media there are many places that still have information about you, but this information still creates some kind of online identity on you, which would be interesting to hear about. Also in your paragraph on breaking the algorithm you talk about how not having used facebook for two years Facebook doesn't know who you are, which could be another really interesting point to elaborate on.

Overall your article was very well written and provided a really interesting take on the assignment considering you don't use that much social media.