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# Tam's Reading Responses

- Checklist for a [good reading response](https://reagle.org/joseph/zwiki/Teaching/Best_Practices/Learning/Writing_Responses.html) of 250-350 words
- [ ] Begin with a punchy start.
- [ ] Mention specific ideas, details, and examples from the text and earlier classes.
- [ ] Offer something novel that you can offer towards class participation.
- [ ] Check for writing for clarity, concision, cohesion, and coherence.
- [ ] Send to professor with “hackmd” in the subject, with URL of this page and markdown of today’s response.

## Reading responses 5 out of 5

### Sep 13 Tue - Markdown

#### Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation
Link to the article (https://points.datasociety.net/agnotology-and-epistemological-fragmentation-56aa3c509c6b)


With the rising of the internet and media, slowly, and systematically, a virus has spread, using technology to systematically destroy the social fabric of public life. On the internet, people tend to behave hastily and violently towards one another. People should understand how to use technology and speak more intelligently online. Because technology can be used maliciously by terrorists or bad people to harm society as a whole.

### Sep 20 Tue - How the web works
After the Data Breach event that exposed the information of 530 million Facebook users, data leak is something that I am always scared of when I use the internet. Of course, I don’t want my sensitive data to be accidentally exposed physically, on the Internet, or in any other form including lost hard drives or laptops. But I still have to use the internet daily. As a result, I'd like to learn how HTTPS works to protect my data from a cybercriminal, what I can do as a user to protect myself while using the internet, and how TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP work together as a chain. Furthermore, as an international student, those "internet terms" are always difficult for me to remember and comprehend. Thus, I would love to know if there is a simpler way to prepare for this, such as imagining how it would work in a real-life situation would be extremely beneficial in this case.

### Sep 27 Tue - Learning

Cramming or mass practice is a favorite study method for many college students, including myself! Even though I know it's bad for me and that I'll forget everything the moment I leave the exam room, I can't stop myself from doing it. But deep down, I always have the feeling that I can do better. Especially after my first Co-op, I feel like I need to change my study method to learn more efficiently. Like Brown said in the article, if you practice elaboration, there's no known limit to 'how much you can learn. But practice takes time, so I will try my best to do it step by step from now on.

### Oct 04 Tue - Cooperation

From running around my dad’s steel workshop when I was 4-years-old to accompanying him on business trips when I was twelve, my business mind has been formed since then. Thus, I love to link everything I’ve read to the business world, which in this case is the prisoner dilemma. The prisoner dilemma in the business world can be seen as a "cartel's" behavior. When, in fact, all members can strengthen together by limiting output to keep the price each member receives high enough to capture the economic benefit from consumers, but some members will always have the incentive to act dishonestly within the community and increase output in order to receive benefit from other "cartel" members. Nowak mentioned that there are mechanisms of cooperation that can help strengthen the cooperation spirit to fight those competitive thinking and those bad “members” in the industry.

### Oct 11 Tue - Haters

“YOU FAIL IT! YOUR SKILL IS NOT ENOUGH.” this term is exactly what I was scared of when I decided that want to create a youtube channel and educate about sex. The story of me want to become a sex educator is quite long, but a shorter version is when I was studying highschool in the State, I received 2 heart breaking stories. One of my best friends got pregnant and she has to have an abortion. The second story was one of my neighbor's daughters was sexually harassed by her uncle and she has no idea that it was sexual harassment, and her parents also do not know anything until she attempted suicide because she didn’t know who to call for help, who to talk to about it, or how to end it. She is not prepared for this situation. That's just how being Asian or Vietnamese is. Vietnamese tend to avoid talking about sensitive stuff which we should not. Even school doesn’t teach us how to protect ourselves, and parents as well won’t talk about it.

Even now when we have access to social media (the quickest way to have access to information) people still do not talk about that stuff because they fear bad and judgmental comments, as well as haters. Thus, one of my friends asked me are you sure about this? Are you prepared to face a barrage of criticism from strangers on the internet? What will your parents think? Well, I don't, and I don't think anyone is prepared for this, and the fact that Meta stated that Facebook users saw bullying or harassment 14 to 15 times out of every 10,000 views of content on the app terrified me. However, I believe that in the long run, those who love me will always support me, especially knowing what I did can help people.

### Oct 14 Fri - Exam review

#### What is the definition of economic capital?

a. related to the honor and recognition of the individual.

b. value of one’s social network

c. holding of cultural values, habits, and tastes (e.g., speech and dress)

d. financial assets, perhaps accumulated from one’s labor

#### What is the definition of dehumanize?

a. division of labor, group decision-making practices; no one is responsible, others’ fault

b. moral justification, euphemistic language, advantageous comparison

c. people are not feeling persons, perpetrators see themselves as victims

d. recall benefits but not harms

#### What is Filter bubbles and how can we avoid it?

* Distort our perception of the world and impair our capacity to make thoughtful judgments because they hide us from opposing viewpoints and surround us exclusively with viewpoints and opinions we agree with.
* Filter bubbles create echo chambers. We assume that everyone thinks like us, and we forget that other perspectives exist.
* How can we avoid it?
* Managing cookies and ads via blockers or Incognito mode
* Reading news sites and blogs which aim to provide a wide range of perspectives
* Switching our focus from entertainment to education

#### Distinguish between The tragedy of the Commons and Public Goods, give examples, and how to prevent those

* The tragedy of the Commons: a situation in which individuals with access to a public resource act in their own interest and, in doing so, ultimately used up all the resource
* Non-excludable (Can’t limit other consumption)
* Rivalrous (their consumption can affect your)
* E.g.: People on the farm have resources to grass for all their cows. Thus, they decided to each increase one more cow with the thinking of if they don’t cheat, their competitors will, and eventually, this used up all their grass.
* Online example: web ads and app notifications (exhausting our attention)
* How to prevent
* Privatization
* Regulation
* Public goods: a commodity or service that is made available to all members of a society. Typically, these services are administered by governments and paid for collectively through taxation.
* Non-excludable (can’t limit other consumption)
* Non-rivalrous (their consumption doesn’t affect your)
* But beware of free riders!
* E.g..: Clean water, lighthouse, clean air
* Online example: online content (we all benefit, but who pays?)
* How to prevent
* Taxes
* Making it private
* Ask for donations