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dc.contributor.authorLeaver, Tama
dc.contributor.authorWillson, Michele
dc.contributor.authorBalnaves, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:55:43Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:55:43Z
dc.date.created2013-02-19T20:00:28Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationLeaver, Tama and Willson, Michele and Balnaves, Mark. 2012. Transparency and the ubiquity of information filtration? Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy. 2.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6815
dc.description.abstract

In past decades, the notion of information filtering was primarily associated with censorship and repressive, non-democratic countries and regimes. However, in the twenty-first century, filtration has become a widespread and increasingly normalised part of daily life. From email filters—designating some messages important, some less important, and others not worth reading at all (spam)—to social networks—with Facebook and Twitter harnessing social ties to curate, sort and share media—through to the biggest filtering agents, the search engines—whose self-professed aims include sorting, and thus implicitly filtering, all our information—filters are inescapable in a digital culture. However, as filtering becomes ubiquitous and normalised, are citizens en masse becoming too accepting or, worse, largely ignorant, of the power these filters hold?

dc.publisherCentre for Culture and Technology
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ctrl-z.net.au//journal?slug=leaver-willson-balnaves-transparency-and-the-ubiquity-of-information-filtration/
dc.subjecttransparency
dc.subjectinformation
dc.subjectworld wide web
dc.subjectsocial games
dc.subjectfiltration
dc.subjectFarmville
dc.subjectFacebook
dc.subjectGoogle
dc.subjectinternet
dc.subjectsearch engines
dc.titleTransparency and the ubiquity of information filtration?
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume1
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.issn2200-8616
dcterms.source.titleCtrl-Z: New Media Philosophy
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curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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