{"id":1172,"date":"2021-11-05T21:05:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T01:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2021-11-05T21:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T01:05:31","slug":"alvin-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/05\/alvin-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvin &#8211; Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The term \u201cagency\u201d has an aspect of mutualistic relationship between humans and technology for a shared interest of enhanced performance. Technological performance is very much reliant on human input and through an agency lens, these technologies have been modified to assist or simplify commands implemented\u00a0 by humans. On the positive side, agency provides a less time consuming element into the system for example an online\u00a0 search providing a user with suggestions based off a well revised history of searches and embedding other forms of collected data\u00a0 like location, time, age, sex and a variety of other factors. All these factors will provide the technology the necessary information needed to enhance and minimise options so as to suit the user\u2019s requirements. On the other hand, the concept of agency contradicts important notions like privacy since the\u00a0 interchange between humans and technology may involve involuntary data collection. Reliance on agency can be a double edged sword by positively enhancing technological performance but negatively limiting human imagination and creativity due to laziness. I think that awareness about the role of agency in the human-technological relationship is fundamental in understanding how much technology has advanced over the years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u201cagency\u201d has an aspect of mutualistic relationship between humans and technology for a shared interest of enhanced performance. Technological performance is very much reliant on human input and through an agency lens, these technologies have been modified to assist or simplify commands implemented\u00a0 by humans. On the positive side, agency provides a less time consuming element into the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/05\/alvin-agency\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","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\/1172","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\/5392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}