{"id":1137,"date":"2021-11-03T13:51:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2021-11-03T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:51:25","slug":"keyword-9-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/03\/keyword-9-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyword #9: Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Media studies, agency refers to the level of human autonomy available in an increasingly technological world. As discussed in class, human and technological agency in a digital world is, in reality, conjoined. Meaning, the technology is reliant on human agency to make meaning while human agency is also manipulated by that meaning. According to a 2018 Pew Research study, there is a growing fear in the general public of losing jobs, knowledge, and control to AI. This fear has led to an increase in cybersecurity firms to prevent the use of weaponized information in AI for social or political gain. Bart Knijnenburg, assistant professor of computer science, combats this fear by reassuring that AI control will come down to intention. Although AI has the potential for serious ramifications against control, it is dependent on \u201chow it&#8217;s implemented\u201d. For example, Knijnenburg suggests that if algorithms and digital infrastructures can support and enhance decision-making processes, we will maintain agency. However, if developers continue this \u201cfilter-bubble\u201d practice, we have less agency over the content we see.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>Anderson, J., &amp;amp; Rainie, L. (2019, December 31). <em>1. concerns about human agency, Evolution and Survival.<\/em> Pew Research Center: Internet, Science &amp;amp; Tech. Retrieved November 3, 2021, from https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2018\/12\/10\/concerns-about-human-agency-evolution-and-survival\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Media studies, agency refers to the level of human autonomy available in an increasingly technological world. As discussed in class, human and technological agency in a digital world is, in reality, conjoined. Meaning, the technology is reliant on human agency to make meaning while human agency is also manipulated by that meaning. According to a 2018 Pew Research study,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/03\/keyword-9-agency\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91513,87686],"tags":[91513,122779,68237,204440],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agency","category-keywords","tag-agency","tag-ai","tag-autonomy","tag-pew-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}