Dick Costolo and How Algorithims Changed Twitter
Dick Costolo, former CEO of Twitter, speaks about how his experiences at the social media giant and how algorithms influenced the trajectory of the platform as it became more than a mere social media site.
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What Needs to Change Online? Chicago Ideas Youth Weigh In
Your impact checklist
Here are a list of things you can do before and after the event to join the conversation.
- Support the organization, Girls Who Code, which teaches girls coding skills and empowers them to be future leaders in tech.
- Donate to the Algorithmic Justice League, an organization hoping to bust bias in technology. Through their site, you can report bias you've experienced in a technology, as well as requesting that your tech be pre-tested by diverse users.
- Become involved with the non-profit Code for Democracy. They focus on building digital tools to encourage transparency in politics and stop disinformation and the exchange of dark money.
- Learn more about the work our Chicago Youth Ambassadors, with the support of the Susan Crown Exchange, have been doing this year to create better digital spaces for everyone following today's viewing of this piece produced by Attn:.
- Read Ramesh Srinivasan's book, Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow.
Idea: It’s time to kick your addiction to algorithms
A Talk about the psychology of algorithms.
Like it, click it, share it, save it—it’s beyond your control. Algorithms are designed to extract the same sort of dopamine response that receiving a compliment evokes, and it’s changing our brains. But who’s controlling the change and the code it follows? In this Talk—featuring a panel discussion with Chicago Ideas Youth Ambassadors—we’ll explore the power of technological influence, who’s responsible for its effects, and what young people are doing to shape technology’s impact on their future.
