{"id":1154,"date":"2021-11-03T23:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T03:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2021-11-03T23:07:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T03:07:20","slug":"marielle-dibbini-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/03\/marielle-dibbini-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Marielle Dibbini: Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Agency is the connection between humans and technology. This word connects to the meaning of autonomy, or the quality of being aware and the ability to make decisions. Today, we all must make decisions based on our interpretation of our surrounding environment. In class, we were able to see agency and algorithms through google searches. When we search something up on google, we are interacting with many different things, meanwhile google is calculating the results of our search. This shows how both human beings and technology must work together in order to find valuable information. After some searches, google starts to get an idea of our likes and dislikes. This allows for google to mostly show us things we are interested in since they have learned about us through our previous google searches. This can be seen on social media apps as well, such as our Tik Tok for you page or our Instagram explore page. Even though we have not personally asked these apps to show us certain things we enjoy watching or viewing, these media platforms are smart enough to know what we want to see.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency is the connection between humans and technology. This word connects to the meaning of autonomy, or the quality of being aware and the ability to make decisions. Today, we all must make decisions based on our interpretation of our surrounding environment. In class, we were able to see agency and algorithms through google searches. When we search something up&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/03\/marielle-dibbini-agency\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","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\/1154","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\/5405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}