Wednesday, October 3, 2012
October 3rd In-Class blogpost
As I recall the filter bubbles module we covered, I do not believe that this concept occurs here, mainly for the sole purpose of BECAUSE IT IS A DATABASE!!!! I find it a little complex for a pesky little database to refine my search, because its not a web browser. It can sometimes become arduous when an academic database starts narrowing or tailoring your options down, now I find that extremely excessive. Also I believe that an internet database does not possess the ability to do so in the first place. If it did I would be shocked beyond measure...(well, not really!) but just startled.
Often when searching through the wonderful interwebs, we just go about our happy lives and simply search away, mainly because many Americans and other people on the global scale do not know that Google, Firefox, Internet Explorer and all of the other browsers do this, and they do not even know to look, and be cautious for them. When I was searching I really notice any changes. The searching seemed unbiased and clean to me. The ones I mainly search were Galileo of course and then the Academic Search Complete database, and I found my searches to be quite thorough. The only difference I noticed was that one focused a little bit more on Government Policies and the detriment of technology on the environment.
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I agree with you on this one I feel like databases should not and can not have filter bubbles. I believe in this strongly because why would a database refine your search that would be kind of absurd.
ReplyDeleteSo after we talked about this question in class, does it make sense to see databases as a sort of self-imposed filter bubble? Or is that just confusing?
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