I interpret agency as the way people get information from others. For example, when your phone or device is sitting in close proximity while talking about a certain item or topic, later that day ads relating to that topic appears. However, as we do not know for sure if our devices are listening to us speak, a single search can give insights into thoughts. An everyday example includes searches on Tik Tok. Whenever a search on Tik Tok goes through whether it be a person, hashtag, or song name, all this information goes into the system and puts more of each topic onto your content stream. As soon as the search button is hit, there are thousands of keywords that connect your information and store it for later use. I have experienced this when shopping online and then later going into Instagram and seeing ads for this particular brand or clothing item, making me want to go back and buy the item. This is a way to show the user more about what they like rather than what they dislike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I interpret agency as the way people get information from others. For example, when your phone or device is sitting in close proximity while talking about a certain item or topic, later that day ads relating to that topic appears. However, as we do not know for sure if our devices are listening to us speak, a single search can… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agency"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","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\/5399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}