{"id":1151,"date":"2021-11-03T21:49:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T01:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2021-11-03T21:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T01:49:52","slug":"agency-chloe-fandetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/03\/agency-chloe-fandetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Agency \u2013 Chloe Fandetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Agency occurs when humans and technology work together. Technology thrives off of and depends on human interaction in order to gain information. One example of agency with technology and humans on a very basic level is google searches. The human has agency when they turn on their computer, click on safari, and type a word into the search engine. The moment that they hit enter, however, the human loses their agency. Technology decides which websites pop up first, whether it\u2019s based on sponsorship, popularity, or incoming links. We blindlessly trust the top links to be the most reliable and factual. Even though the human clicks on the website, the choices in front of them, the order in which they appear, and the information they contain are influenced by technology and data. Humans do not have much agency over the media they consume, as almost everything is mediated and customized based on user data. It\u2019s unsettling to think about how much control technology has on our lives, especially because many people do not realize that it\u2019s happening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency occurs when humans and technology work together. Technology thrives off of and depends on human interaction in order to gain information. One example of agency with technology and humans on a very basic level is google searches. The human has agency when they turn on their computer, click on safari, and type a word into the search engine. The&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/03\/agency-chloe-fandetti\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","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\/1151","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\/5395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}