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| + | Every person I will ever meet has a different perspective of me. These people will have good and bad memories of me, forming their own idea of who I am. A stranger on the subway sees me as the girl who rushed onto the last cable car to make the 7am commute. A friend on my cheerleading team knows me as the girl who broke her wrist landing that tumbling pass wrong. My classmate thinks of me as the girl who could spit out mental math like a calculator. However, when one first reads the name, Maggie O’Meara, a full persona cannot be created in their mind; a name doesn’t pass you on the sidewalk. Yet, in our digital society, a name passes you by frequently. A recruiter will first see the name Maggie O’Meara in big bold letters at the top of my resume. They will then search my name, but all they will find is my only public data persona: @mags_omeara on instagram. The other four @mags_omeara’s are masked behind the privatized tool that applications allow. My data identity changes depending on the social media platform, creating different digital personas that evolve as I age. These personas alter the perception that both the data collector and other users have of me, subjectively skewing Big Data algorithms. | ||
== My Data Identities == | == My Data Identities == | ||
Revision as of 11:30, 19 February 2021
Introduction
Every person I will ever meet has a different perspective of me. These people will have good and bad memories of me, forming their own idea of who I am. A stranger on the subway sees me as the girl who rushed onto the last cable car to make the 7am commute. A friend on my cheerleading team knows me as the girl who broke her wrist landing that tumbling pass wrong. My classmate thinks of me as the girl who could spit out mental math like a calculator. However, when one first reads the name, Maggie O’Meara, a full persona cannot be created in their mind; a name doesn’t pass you on the sidewalk. Yet, in our digital society, a name passes you by frequently. A recruiter will first see the name Maggie O’Meara in big bold letters at the top of my resume. They will then search my name, but all they will find is my only public data persona: @mags_omeara on instagram. The other four @mags_omeara’s are masked behind the privatized tool that applications allow. My data identity changes depending on the social media platform, creating different digital personas that evolve as I age. These personas alter the perception that both the data collector and other users have of me, subjectively skewing Big Data algorithms.
