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MIT defines your Internet Persona
Ricardo Trejo
Aaron Zinman, who is of MIT's Media Lab, with the help of a few others, have created this project titled: Personas.
What's an Internet Persona?
In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer's uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.
And how does this site gather your info to determine your online persona?
Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.
All that make sense? In simple terms it looks up your name, the more unique your name, the better, and it searches the context around sites or articles that somehow contain your name within them. If you have a generic name then you're going to get a mix of mostly other people's work and activity. The activity is then represented within categories, each color coded.
(Kind of hard to see but that green section in my persona bar says "illegal". Woah, wonder what I've been doing?!)
Find out your digital persona: HERE
[Via TechCrunch]
