User Data and the Web...

Reading, User Data on the Social Web: Authorship, Agency, and Appropriation made me feel weird... I know everything we do is somehow tracked and that's how when I thought about rollerblading and googled it once. All of a sudden I'm getting ads for rollerblading. "By 2020 The Web could be completely controlled by corporations with what user generate content there is being packaged by commercial sites and closely watched by government agent" (Reyman, 2013). Here we are in 2022 and I feel like I'm being watched...



I will say it's very helpful when I'm trying to look up items on Amazon and then Amazon is able to give some pretty good recommendations. I don't like how you can google something and all of a sudden it just keeps appearing. I remember when I was newly pregnant. I got some coupons in the mail that said "Congrats" it was coupons for baby items. I started freaking out and thought how did they know?! I was just about 8 weeks pregnant and had not told any family members yet, just my husband. I guess my google searches and looking up registries is what made those coupons to my mailbox. 


References

Reyman, J. (2013). User data on the social web: Authorship, agency, and appropriation. (Links to an external site.) College English, 75(5), 513-533.

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