{"id":4203,"date":"2016-08-21T10:34:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T10:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2022-04-05T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T09:39:09","slug":"the-loudest-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/the-loudest-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"The Loudest Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"

A classroom, like any other social group will have popular pupils, the ones who get heard most by other pupils. I guess a teachers job is to encourage participation for all learners.<\/p>\n

We have to\u00a0think if software companies are the best people to curate our information.<\/p>\n

A While back I turned off the setting in twitter to show me the ‘best tweets’ first. I noted that I hadn’t noticed this being turned on.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I found a new setting, not sure when it happened, and tweeted<\/a> turning it off with a gif:<\/p>\n

\"quality-filter\"
I don’t want Twitter being a quality filter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This got a couple of\u00a0interesting replies and I put in a few more pence worth:<\/p>\n

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@johnjohnston<\/a> @robfmac<\/a> I wonder what the measure of “quality” is? I’m already struggling with missing everyone in other SM algorithms.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jennifer Jones (@jennifermjones) August 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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@robfmac<\/a> @jennifermjones<\/a> danger of algorithms is they reinforce popularity at the expense of inclusion perhaps.<\/p>\n

\u2014 john johnston (@johnjohnston) August 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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@johnjohnston<\/a> @jennifermjones<\/a> absolutely. I\u2019m already fed up with FB hiding posts because my default is \u2018most recent\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Robert\uf8ffMacmillan (@robfmac) August 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n