Episode 1 companion · Season one
Who chooses your next video?
A recommendation is not mind-reading. It is an estimate shaped by behaviour, context and the objective the system was designed to pursue.
TAS · Tareq Abushawish · Version 1.0 · Reviewed
Core idea
What appears in your feed is not a neutral sample of the world.
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- Module 10: Advertising and Media and Information Literacy ↗UNESCO · 2021
Read the advertising revenue and targeting sections, then identify the advertiser, claim, evidence and interest in an example of your choice.
- Module 11: Artificial Intelligence, Social Media and MIL Competencies ↗UNESCO · 2021
Start with AI basics and social media applications, then observe your own recommendations. Observation alone does not reveal a platform’s internal algorithm.
Try this after the episode
In five minutes, note the topics of five feed recommendations and any earlier interaction with similar content. Write one possible explanation and one alternative; do not treat this observation as proof of how the recommender works.
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