Francesca Millan's Learning Journal

Social media refer to all types of media with a "social" connotation, such as social networks, blogs, forums, etc. On the other hand, social networks refer to a special category within social media, which are platforms for communication and information exchange. Among the social networks that I use constantly are Facebook, WhatsApp, and TikTok . Furthermore, YouTube is a social media that is defined as a multimedia tool. My social networks for social and family use, such as within my Facebook, WhatsApp and TikTok, I only have friends and family with whom I need to communicate regularly. Instead, I use YouTube to listen to music and watch videos that interest me. The time I spend on my social networks is a total of 2 hours a day since I have established this time so as not to be distracted from the rest of my obligations. Since I consider that doing activities outside the Internet is healthy and helps me to physically relate to other people. The social networks I use ma...

    After reading the article "We are data" by John Cheney-Lippold, I have understood that technology has become an important part of our interaction in personal and professional life. As the author mentions, our activity on the web provides us with an online identity that does not necessarily match our identity in real life (p.4). This interaction allows the algorithms created by different companies such as Google to create a database to offer us through its interpretation what we need, such as news that may interest us, advertising, etc. Since as the author mentions, this database is created by all the information that we enter on the web and/or on the pages we visit (p. 6). Hence the author's statement, with which I agree, that we are “data.” Since this database is created thanks to all the information that we provide voluntarily and anonymously.      In fact, and as the author mentions, this database with which the algorithms have built our online ...