The Building Blocks of Personalization

In recent years, much of the conversation surrounding media consumption has been focused on misinformation and fake news. While this is an important topic and vital to discussions of information, civic, news, and digital literacies, it is not a new phenomenon. What is salient are the delivery mechanisms undergirding our information ecosystem, the complexity of which is only possible through algorithmic intervention. This hands-on workshop showcases algorithmic literacy activities from the #ForYou: Algorithms & the Attention Economy workshop, framed by current events and emerging theory, and encourages participants to adapt them to their campus needs.