{"id":1175,"date":"2021-11-06T14:27:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T18:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2021-11-06T14:27:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T18:27:56","slug":"agency-mary-margaret-clouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/06\/agency-mary-margaret-clouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Agency: Mary Margaret Clouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Agency reminds me a lot of our readings and discussions surrounding data in that agency is largely related to what an algorithm knows about the user (as provided by data) and then agency is determined based on this. Noessel mentioned how agents would ensure that \u201cYour interests find you\u201d which makes me question then how much of one\u2019s interests would be self-determined. How much are they now? I\u2019m sure that agents built into apps like Spotify have suggested music to me, which has likely led to my discovery of some of my favorite artists, but what happens when these agents reinforce danger or violence online? The Noessel article suggests a very positive quality to the influence of agents, focusing on how they will make life easier. However, I cannot help but fear the lack of autonomy that may come with self-driving cars, algorithms catered to one\u2019s interests, etc. I feel that this may decrease the scope of our skills and knowledge. Will there one day be teenagers who don\u2019t have to learn how to drive? As convenient as it sounds, this increased focus on making things easier can become quite dangerous.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency reminds me a lot of our readings and discussions surrounding data in that agency is largely related to what an algorithm knows about the user (as provided by data) and then agency is determined based on this. Noessel mentioned how agents would ensure that \u201cYour interests find you\u201d which makes me question then how much of one\u2019s interests would&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/06\/agency-mary-margaret-clouse\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91513,87686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agency","category-keywords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","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\/5404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}