Watching Guide for "Filter Bubble" 

  1. What did the Internet mean to Eli Pariser when he was growing up in rural Maine?

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  2. What did the speaker first notice about his information feed on Facebook? _______

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  3. "Facebook does invisible ____________________ editing of the web."  What does this mean?

    (you may have to look up the definition of the word that you put in the blank above)

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  4. What are three things that Google uses to determine how it will filter your search results?

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  5. Name 5 Internet sites that personalize results:  _______________________________

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  6. "The Internet is moving to a place where it is showing us what we __________ to see

    but not necessarily what we ___________  to see."

  7. Can you see what is being filtered out of results from the web? __________________

    Can you decide what is being filtered out? __________________

  8. Instead of a balance in your information diet, you can get surrounded by ___________

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  9. What does the speaker suggest we should also see, beside things that are just "relevant'?

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  10. How could this algorithmic filtering be bad for democracy? ______________________

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