Wednesday, October 3, 2012

October 3 In Class Blog Post


I never knew anything about filter bubbles till I saw the video that explained about it. It is an interesting function that people do not know about. It gives you the answers that people with power over the search engines want you to see. It lets you see only the information that is important to your region and your previous searches. It could apply to the different databases since each on is different.  You will see something different in each database since each has its own search engines. In the databases I searched I noticed they both had papers on sexually motivated serial killers. Thought it was strange that a serial killer in most of the articles in my opinion was sexually motivated if you look of psychology of serial killers. The difference was that in the second database today we looked in, it was mainly about forensic investigation of serial killers and the mind concept of them. It was interesting to see how your results change depending on where you look for them. One is mainly about sexually orientated side of them, while the other focused on their mindset and how their minds work. It shows that each search engines has different filter bubbles that are used to see what information you want to see.

1 comment:

  1. I had heard of filter bubbles before this i did not know how they worked though. The video did a very good job explaining filter bubbles to me. I like that the libraries databases do not use fiter bubbles.

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