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Sasha Ross

The Surveillance Society | TIME.com - 0 views

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  • Privacy is mostly an illusion. A useful illusion, no question about it, one that allows us to live without being paralyzed by self-consciousness.
  • Like children of a certain age who think closing their eyes will make them invisible, we assume that no one sees or hears our private moments, and we’re right—until someone watches or listens.
  • The great filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock was fascinated by secrets that would not stay hidden and made a masterpiece, Rear Window, from the premise that entire lives (and deaths) are on display behind the uncovered windows of anonymous cities, just waiting for a watcher to decrypt them
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  • But the revelation of the NSA’s vast data-collection programs by a crusading contract worker, Edward Snowden, has made it clear that the rise of technology is shattering even the illusion of privacy.
  • And at the same time, ever more sophisticated computer algorithms make it possible to sift through and analyze larger and larger slices of that data, raising social and ethical dilemmas that cannot be ignored
  • Sasha Ross on 11 Feb 14
     
    This is another very interesting article on the surveillance society.  I really enjoyed this article because it includes many lines that are relatable to everyone and that also help in understanding the issue. This article is very easy to understand and gives a bunch of interesting examples on surveillance and society.
Tanya Tan

Will You Go Viral? Here's A Way To Predict - 0 views

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  • Why do some things go viral while others, arguably better or more entertaining, remain in the dark?
  • “fear of missing out”
  • Roadblock Effectsimulates everyone talking about your story at the same time to the point where you can’t get past it.
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  • The Stagger Effect doesn’t require such intense coordination.  It still creates the same illusion that everyone is talking about you, but it is accomplished in a (you guessed it) staggered manner. 
  • Tanya Tan on 11 Mar 14
     
    Is there a way of predicting if content will go viral? This article, published by Forbes magazine, written by Roger Wu, attributes the viral success of a certain types of media such as videos, images and sound clips into two categories: the "Roadblock Effect" or the "Stagger Effect." Wu explains that viral content can be divided into these two categories and can therefore be used to determine whether or not content will go viral.
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