Who chooses my diet? The automated notification of people in the digital environment

Keywords: Information diet, digital environment, media literacy, personalization, search engine

Abstract

From the theoretical point of view, this work analyzes how technology configures the new digital environment, as a space of information flow that gives meaning to our relationship with the world and; the development of our digital identity as subjects in development that mean in the digital experience. In this context, search engines, as cultural software, offer a personalized information diet, providing answers to queries by means of biased results, elaborated from the behavior patterns of the subjects, demystifying the global access to information.

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Published
2021-05-28
How to Cite
Vidal-Sepúlveda, M., & Olivares-Rodríguez, C. (2021). Who chooses my diet? The automated notification of people in the digital environment. Información, Cultura Y Sociedad, (44), 143-154. https://doi.org/10.34096/ics.i44.8627
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