Ted Talk Speech Summary

Play is limited based on where the center of the structure is located. What we believe to be the center of a structure is, in fact, not the center because that is what has been normalized at the center. Instead, the true center of a structure allows the concept of sociological imagination to place an emphasis on the experience of the individual and its relationship to society as the focal point of all sociological understanding; the sociological imagination allows for a full engagement with play. Play helps the reader examine and analyze different aspect of the reading. When looking at Dubois’ speech, he states that the women are forced to wear uniforms, this affects gender norms--a set of societal norms dictating the types of behaviors which are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex or sexuality, because it perpetuates the domestication of women. While men were allowed to wear and do whatever women were forced

Eli Pariser molded the term to refer to the way recommendation engines shield people from certain aspects of the real world. In Pariser’s Ted Talk speech, he uses the example of two people who googled the term “BP”. One received links to investment news about BP while the other received links to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, presumably as a result of some recommendation algorithm. This is a potentially dangerous problem. When one is in their own bubble they are able to find information that they want, but not necessarily that they need. By doing so, they are building ignorance and this hinders their growth of knowledge. These filter bubbles surround people that they agree with instead of people who will challenge their beliefs, and the danger is that it can contradict populations and potentially create harmful divisions in