WHo is Eli Pariser?
"Eli grew up in Lincolnville, Maine, and graduated summa cum laude in 2000 with
a B.A. in Law, Politics, and Society from Simon's Rock College. He was lucky
enough to give the Commencement Address there in 2005, and to receive an
honorary high school diploma -- one of very few given to
non-high-school-graduates -- from Camden-Rockport High School. He lives in
Brooklyn, NY.
Shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks, Eli Pariser created a website
calling for a multilateral approach to fighting terrorism. In the following
weeks, over half a million people from 192 countries signed on, and Pariser
rather unexpectedly became an online organizer. The website merged with MoveOn.org in November
2001, and Pariser -- then 20 years old -- joined the group to direct its foreign
policy campaigns. He led what the New York Times Magazine called the
"mainstream arm of the peace movement" -- tripling MoveOn's member base and
demonstrating how large numbers of small donations could be mobilized through
online engagement.
In 2004, Pariser became executive director of MoveOn.
Under his leadership, MoveOn.org Political Action has grown to 5 million members
and raised over $120 million from millions of small donors to support advocacy
campaigns and political candidates. Pariser focused MoveOn on online-to-offline
organizing, developing phone-banking tools and precinct programs in 2004 and
2006 that laid the groundwork for Barack Obama's extraordinary web-powered
campaign. In 2008, Pariser transitioned the Executive Director role at MoveOn to
Justin Ruben and became President of MoveOn’s board; he's now a senior fellow at
the Roosevelt
Institute.
His book The Filter
Bubble is set for release May 12, 2011. In it, he asks how
modern search tools -- the filter by which many of see the wider world -- are
getting better and better and screening the wider world from us, by returning
only the search results it "thinks" we want to see. "
Information courtesy of: http://www.ted.com/speakers/eli_pariser.html
a B.A. in Law, Politics, and Society from Simon's Rock College. He was lucky
enough to give the Commencement Address there in 2005, and to receive an
honorary high school diploma -- one of very few given to
non-high-school-graduates -- from Camden-Rockport High School. He lives in
Brooklyn, NY.
Shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks, Eli Pariser created a website
calling for a multilateral approach to fighting terrorism. In the following
weeks, over half a million people from 192 countries signed on, and Pariser
rather unexpectedly became an online organizer. The website merged with MoveOn.org in November
2001, and Pariser -- then 20 years old -- joined the group to direct its foreign
policy campaigns. He led what the New York Times Magazine called the
"mainstream arm of the peace movement" -- tripling MoveOn's member base and
demonstrating how large numbers of small donations could be mobilized through
online engagement.
In 2004, Pariser became executive director of MoveOn.
Under his leadership, MoveOn.org Political Action has grown to 5 million members
and raised over $120 million from millions of small donors to support advocacy
campaigns and political candidates. Pariser focused MoveOn on online-to-offline
organizing, developing phone-banking tools and precinct programs in 2004 and
2006 that laid the groundwork for Barack Obama's extraordinary web-powered
campaign. In 2008, Pariser transitioned the Executive Director role at MoveOn to
Justin Ruben and became President of MoveOn’s board; he's now a senior fellow at
the Roosevelt
Institute.
His book The Filter
Bubble is set for release May 12, 2011. In it, he asks how
modern search tools -- the filter by which many of see the wider world -- are
getting better and better and screening the wider world from us, by returning
only the search results it "thinks" we want to see. "
Information courtesy of: http://www.ted.com/speakers/eli_pariser.html
My THoughts...
Watching Eli Pariser in The Filter Bubble made me realize I am among the people who are being "filtered" in a sense. I go on google all the time too look up information, I never would of thought it would be filtering it too my needs or personality. The way I interlized with my expereince at this event was simple, I realized there is too much information posted on the web for everyone to be able to see the same results. There really is no choice but to filter it to your personality and needs.
The Filter Bubble can be related to the theme we've been studying of "Human Rights". As our rights we should be able to view what we want and to all be treated equal. However, if the internet is filtering our results because of how we grew up, where we live, what we do, our race, etc. than that in itself should be considered a violation. They are giving us what they think we want to see not what everyone should be seeing. If we are all equal why would it come down to filtering what we view on the interweb.
The Filter Bubble can be related to the theme we've been studying of "Human Rights". As our rights we should be able to view what we want and to all be treated equal. However, if the internet is filtering our results because of how we grew up, where we live, what we do, our race, etc. than that in itself should be considered a violation. They are giving us what they think we want to see not what everyone should be seeing. If we are all equal why would it come down to filtering what we view on the interweb.