I had the thought today about Facebook, Twitter, and many other online/mobile platforms which continually feed us "top posts" or content based on location.
I don't like this because I like to select my own content. Today I realized that this could be related to self-efficacy. I feel that I have high self-efficacy and therefore I like to select my own content.
People who blindly accept the content "served" to them become functionally helpless, which aligns with low self-efficacy. Of course, it is possible to overcome these content defaults, but it is harder to do, particularly on mobile devices.
In my mind, this may align with stereotypes of the young people in the US who are just transitioning from teenager to adult. The stereotype is that over-protective parents have shielded them from any hint of failure, so they have never learned to solve problems on their own.
So my question is whether lack of choice in our social media feeds contributes in any way to an overall lack of self-efficacy in people today.
I am for agenda media, for experience suggests that they use lots of different social media already, and for slightly different purposes--some for peer-to-peer networking more information sugest.
There is a mass of empirical evidence that personalisation of content restricts human autonomy, leads to psychological and social harms. It is not restricted to social media, and is possibly more harmful in Google search results.
I suggest searching terms like "filter bubble" or "the search engine effect". Many have written extensively on this issue. You may wish to look at the following:
Dainow, Brandt. ‘Digital Alienation as the Foundation of Online Privacy Concerns’. Computers & Society ETHICOMP Special Issue (2015): 109–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874255.
Dainow, Brandt. ‘Key Dialectics in Cloud Services’. Computers & Society ETHICOMP Special Issue (2015): 52–59. https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874247.
Feuz, Martin, Matthew Fuller, and Felix Stalder. ‘Personal Web Searching in the Age of Semantic Capitalism: Diagnosing the Mechanisms of Personalisation’. First Monday 16, no. 2 (2011). http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3344.
Bakshy, Eytan, Solomon Messing, and Lada A. Adamic. ‘Exposure to Ideologically Diverse News and Opinion on Facebook’. Science 348, no. 6239 (2015): 1130–1132. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa1160.
Kennedy, Helen. ‘New Media’s Potential for Personalization’. Information, Communication & Society 11, no. 3 (April 2008): 307–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180802025293.
Nagulendra, Sayooran, and Julita Vassileva. ‘Understanding and Controlling the Filter Bubble through Interactive Visualization: A User Study’. In Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 107–15. Santiago, Chile: ACM Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1145/2631775.2631811.
Lovink, Geert, and Miriam Rasch, eds. Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013.
Andrejevic, Mark B. ‘Surveillance and Alienation in the Online Economy’. Surveillance & Society 8, no. 3 (2011): 278–87.
Kaplan, Frederic. ‘Linguistic Capitalism and Algorithmic Mediation’. Representations 127, no. 1 (August 2014): 57–63. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2014.127.1.57.
‘How the Internet Flips Elections and Alters Our Thoughts | Aeon Essays’. Accessed 5 October 2016. https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-alters-our-thoughts.
Pasquinelli, Matteo. ‘Google’s PageRank Algorithm: A Diagram of Cognitive Capitalism and the Rentier of the Common Intellect’. In Deep Search: The Politics of Search Beyond Google, edited by Felix Stalder and Konrad Becker, 152–162. Innsbruck: Studienverlag & Transaction Publishers, 2009.
McChesney, Robert W. Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet against Democracy. New York, N.Y: New Press, The, 2013.
Very interesting discussion topic , so following to get more information
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I am for agenda media, for experience suggests that they use lots of different social media already, and for slightly different purposes--some for peer-to-peer networking more information sugest.
Sometimes or mostly we tend to divert on what we are supposed to focus on because of what we see on social media. Its indeed destructing.
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