Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard by Aina Trivedi https://padlet.com/trivedi35185/dqdqyp4o8e7d Notes for theme: Social Class and equality, conformity and individualism, Dangers of absolute power and freedom. en-us 2017-05-17 02:37:31 UTC 2018-01-12 17:17:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Problems with absolute power https://padlet.com/trivedi35185/dqdqyp4o8e7d/wish/172235670 The problem of course is that by allowing power to become so concentrated, you lose the checks and balance that diversity and dissent provides, thereby running an unacceptable risk that this unchallenged power will be abused.]]> 2017-05-17 02:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/trivedi35185/dqdqyp4o8e7d/wish/172235670 What is absolute power? maruyamale48341 https://padlet.com/trivedi35185/dqdqyp4o8e7d/wish/172235993
  •  Complete authority to act in an area, not restrained by supervision or review.
    • ]]>     2017-05-17 02:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/trivedi35185/dqdqyp4o8e7d/wish/172235993     cheng32843 https://padlet.com/trivedi35185/dqdqyp4o8e7d/wish/172474845 BACKGROUND 
    • In Cubberley high school 
    •  Palo alto
    • California 
    • First week April 1967
    • Ron jones 
    • History teacher 
    • unable to explain to his students how people throughout history followed the crowd even when terrible things were happening,
    • Thought of Experiment 
    • Started movement aimed to eliminate democracy. 
    • Names “the third wave” 
    • Symbol of strength
    • Third series of waves is strongest 
    • Central point: democracys main weakness favors individual over whole community
    • Motto:“Strength through discipline, strength through community, strength through action, strength through pride.”
    The Experiment 
    • Started first day w/ emphasizing simple things : proper seating, drilled students until they got it right
    • Result: framatic improvements to the efficiency/orderliness of the class. 
    • First day only ended with few rules. 
    • Students had to be sitting at attention before the second bell, had to stand up to ask or answer questions and had to do it in three words or fewer, and were required to preface
    • After week : transformed into a group with a supreme sense of discipline and community.
    • Made up salute resembling one of nazi regime
    • Ordered class salute eachother even outside class. 
    • They obeyed 
    • After three days: students from all other school joining 
    • Went rom 30 students to 43 
    • All of the students showed drastic improement in academic skills and treendous motivation. 
    • All students given a member card 
    • each received special assignment
    •  designing Third Wave Banner, 
    • stopping non-members going in class
    • other tasks bring honor to movement
    •  instructed students how get new members
    •  end of day movement had over 200 participants. 
    • Jones was surprised some of the students started reporting to him when other members of the movement failed to follow the rules
    • fourth day
    •  students increasingly involved
    •  discipline and loyalty to project  outstanding 
    • Jones felt slipping out of control
    •  He terminate the movement, 
    • lied to students announcing the Third Wave part of a nationwide movement the next day presidential candidate of movement publicly announce its existence on television. 
    • Jones ordered students attend noon rally Friday witness announcement.
    • instead of televised address of leader
    • presented with a blank channel. 
    • After a few minutes Jones announced they had been a part of experiment to demonstrate  people willingly create superiority over others, can lead people to justify doing horrible things in the name of the state’s honor.

    ]]>     2017-05-18 02:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/trivedi35185/dqdqyp4o8e7d/wish/172474845     The Facebook Algorithm Is Watching You cheng32843 https://padlet.com/trivedi35185/dqdqyp4o8e7d/wish/172475021 - Face book like button = powerful 
    • reaction icon isn’t just for emotional response
    • way for Facebook to kwno who you are
    •  “Love” a photo of friend’s baby/ click “Angry” on an article about the New England Patriots winning the Super Bowl
    •  training Facebook to see you certain way: You are a person who seems to love babies and hate Tom Brady.
    • More clicks = more sophisticated facebok idea of who are you becomes 
    • (Remember: reaction choices seem limited: Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, or Angry. this time last year, only a “Like” button.)
    • This matters: what Facebook might do with sense of your baby-loving, Tom-Brady-hating self.
    •  Facebook show you more photos of babies / fewer articles about football, 
    •  affect which friends appear more frequently Feed.
    • And might affect your perception of the world.
    • you see sponsored posts aimed at parents of young kids
    • Or it shows you outsized number of Tom Brady posts one week as way to provoke you
    • Facebook has history of experimenting on users
    • “Facebook has conducted covert experiments on its users to evaluate how Facebook can emotionally influence people,” says Ben Grosser, an artist and a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “They already have so much power. To give an algorithm and a corporation access to which of the things on your feed you are most reactive to—it’s really useful information that tells them to not just tailor content to what they think you like, but they can push you.”
    • Grosser’s latest project attempt push back. 
    • made  browser extension: Go Rando, 
    • intercepts each time click reaction button 
    • Then uses  random-number generator and selects reaction for you. 
    • Like : angry. Happy: sad 
    • Users can click specific reaction if they want but will randomize their reactions for them.
    • project meant to encourage people to question what they’re doing
    •  wants people to ask: “Where does this data go? Who benefits from it? And who is made most vulnerable by it?”
    • “I want people to think about who is reading this data,” Grosser told me. “We think of [clicking reaction buttons for the benefit of] our friends, but the primary consumers of this data are not our friends. It’s for the news feed algorithm, advertising message profiling, predictive analytics. All these different systems that are looking to mine this data, hoping to understand our hopes or fears as a way of deciding how to sell us something, as a way of deciding whether we’re dangerous, as a way of deciding whether we’re worthy of getting a loan.”
    • browser extensions at times, awkward.
    • forces people to go into this conversation about what reactions are and how they might mean something or not mean something, or how they can be interpreted.”
    • “It’s almost a compulsive, involuntary behavior at this point,” Grosser said. “I think a lot of people can identify with the feeling of ‘liking’ something even if they didn’t really like it, because it’s important to indicate presence or having seen the item.”
    • Every time you click button on Facebook /indicate to a friend you’ve seen whatever it is they’ve posted, Facebook sees you back.

    ]]>     2017-05-18 02:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/trivedi35185/dqdqyp4o8e7d/wish/172475021     Authoritarian China cheng32843 https://padlet.com/trivedi35185/dqdqyp4o8e7d/wish/172477843 Attempted to take complete control of the citizens by controlling power and media in the country. ]]> 2017-05-18 02:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/trivedi35185/dqdqyp4o8e7d/wish/172477843