{"id":841,"date":"2021-09-29T11:42:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=841"},"modified":"2021-09-29T11:42:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T15:42:54","slug":"keyword-6-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/29\/keyword-6-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyword #6: Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Culturally, technology is a keyword that is often misconstrued and misrepresented. Keyword author Jennifer Daryl Slack asserts that technology is seen largely as a \u201cmeasure of progress\u201d and the \u201cpromise of a good life\u201d, when in reality this result is dependent upon its \u201cintentions\u2026 and relations of power at stake\u201d. Because it is in our nature to be attracted to new, shiny \u201cthings\u201d, we many times fail to recognize its perversion of knowledge and human behavior. One pervasive disadvantage has been misinformation. In Pew Research\u2019s article, \u201cTech causes more problems than it solves\u201d, Greg Shatan, a lawyer with Moses &amp; Singer LLP, suggests that \u201cthe instinctual BS-meter is not enough. The next version of the \u2018BS-meter\u2019 will need to be technologically based\u201d (Vogels et al., 2020). Overall, AI and large-scale companies have gotten more and more advanced in creating deep fakes and presenting information in a realistic looking way that it has become exhausting to find the \u201ctruth\u201d. Thus, misinformation has had drastic influences on our essential systems such as public health and democracy. The deep-web Qanon group uses misinformation and spreads hateful ideologies behind the guise of truth. This group has influenced the number of vaccinated people in the United States and therefore has contributed to the longevity of COVID-19 and the death rate in underrepresented communities. Overwhelmingly, this phenomenon continues to have a devastating effect on modern politics and the ways in which we obtain and interpret information.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>Vogels, E. A., Rainie, L., &amp;amp; Anderson, J. (2020, October 23)<em>. 5. tech causes more problems than it solves.<\/em> Pew Research Center: Internet, Science &amp;amp; Tech. Retrieved September 29, 2021, from https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2020\/06\/30\/tech-causes-more-problems-than-it-solves\/.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_842\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-842\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-842\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/facebook-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/facebook-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/facebook-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/facebook-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/facebook-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/facebook-624x351.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/facebook.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;What are &#8216;deepfakes&#8217; and how they might be dangerous&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culturally, technology is a keyword that is often misconstrued and misrepresented. Keyword author Jennifer Daryl Slack asserts that technology is seen largely as a \u201cmeasure of progress\u201d and the \u201cpromise of a good life\u201d, when in reality this result is dependent upon its \u201cintentions\u2026 and relations of power at stake\u201d. Because it is in our nature to be attracted to&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/29\/keyword-6-technology\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87686,811],"tags":[68183,196679,196894,811],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keywords","category-technology","tag-deep-fake","tag-keyword","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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\/5402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}