Agency is a way of in a way spying on someone’s actions. As we talked about in our class discussion, a simple google search can figure out so much about you. We see this in many different ways when it comes to ads and social media apps. People often feel as though they’re being listened to because they’ll see ads about something they were talking about last week. As well as the Alexa’s and Google Homes, which are actually listening 24/7. It’s an interesting yet terrifying thing knowing that your actions are constantly being watched and recorded. Additionally to this, there are also things like travel agencies & employment agencies. A way to think about it is if you think about a travel agent and what they do. Their job is to collect information from other sources and offer you advice as to where you should go. This is very similar to a google search.
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What you posit is really interesting about the role of “agents” in careers. I looked it up and found that one definition said the role of an agency is “a business that takes care of all the details for a person”. This is a definition I never would have considered as “scary” prior to this class as it comes as a helpful thing. However, popular movies that portray secret “agents” bring in these ideas of the threats to our autonomy and the idea of being watched. This relates directly to our understanding of agency in a digital world, as algorithms replace the role of human agents to “take care of the details”.