Big Data Podcast
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ENG 110
Working Thesis for Big Data
Working thesis: Having the collection of big data protect patients confidentiality and privacy, but promote medical inclusion, more discoveries for treatment, diagnoses, and other medical advancements can be made through trends and other specifics.
MLA citation-Source 1
Greenwald, Glenn. Why Privacy Matters. TED Talk, Oct. 2014, https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters?language=en. Accessed 2 April 2018. This TED Talk talks about the idea of privacy, and that each person needs privacy. I can use this source as a possible naysayer for the idea that looking at medical records can be an invasion of privacy and not everyone is comfortable … [Read more…]
Reflection on Big Data Resources
So far for the Big Data project, I have watched a TED talk by Glenn Grennwald, about why privacy matters. This TED talk discusses the idea of privacy within the mass surveillance that takes place in all aspects of society. Greenwald talks about how people claim that privacy doesn’t matter, yet they have passwords and … [Read more…]
TED Talk, Alessandro Acquisti “What will a future without secrets look like?”
“Imagine that an organization has access to your list of Facebook friends, and through some kind of algorithm they can detect the two friends that you like the most. And then they create, in real time, a facial composite of these two friends. Now studies prior to ours have shown that people don’t recognize any longer even themselves in facial composites, but they … [Read more…]
Diary of My Phone
Dear Diary, Starting off the day by an alarm going off, and checking the weather app in hopes of some warm weather. Next is checking missed messages that were sent over night, and then moving into various social media outlets to get caught up from late posts. Instagram is the most frequently used, followed by … [Read more…]
“Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation”
Jean Twenge discusses a variety of issues that stem from the revolution of smartphones within the new generations, iGen, she talks about the decline in activities iGens takes part in and the results of these smartphones. The essence of Twenge’s arguement is that, “the more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they … [Read more…]
It’s Complicated
“…regardless of how they use privacy settings, teens must grapple with who can see their profile, who actually does see it, and how those who do see it will interpret it” (32). “Online, there’s no way to change the conversation, both because it’s virtually impossible to know if someone is approaching and because the persistent … [Read more…]
Eulogy for Past Social Media Self
Goodbye to the old Facebook account of my past social media self. Filled with old edited pictures through Picnik, dramatic song lyrics as captions, and symbol letter writing. Updated posts each hour of my constant activities for that moment, tagging each individual friend I was with, and telling everyone about the smallest details of my … [Read more…]
Sherry Turkle’s “Connected, But Alone” TED Talk
Sherry Turkle in her TED talk, talks about how connected society is with our technology and devices. She claims that these devices take away solitude and the ability to connect with ourselves as we now look to be connected in all ways through these devices. We are being taught that it is not acceptable to … [Read more…]
