Saturday, December 4, 2021 The Symposium is an inter-college event where Res College students openly discuss the topics explored within each college’s respective theme.
Every student will give either a Presentation or a Poster, either as a group or as an individual project. Every student will also be an audience member for their peers.
At Registration, you will receive a name tag with your schedule on it. The Symposium is organized into two, concurrent, sessions: Session I: 1:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. & Session II: 3:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Schedule overview is as follows:
12:30pm: Student and Moderator Registration, Holmes Hall Lobby 1pm: Opening Speaker, Shirah Moffatt-Darko ’18, Social Justice College, Trout Auditorium 1:40 - 3pm: Poster Session in Holmes Hall Lobby & Formal Presentations in Holmes Hall Classrooms 3:10pm - 4:30pm: Poster Session in Holmes Hall Lobby & Formal Presentations in Holmes Hall Classrooms 4:40 - 5pm: Plenary Party in Holmes Hall Lobby
Day in and day out we are handing over our personal freedoms to the convenience and the entertainment of internet consumption platforms. This dubious transaction is labeled as one to help improve our experiences which perhaps they do, but what other ways is the agreement affecting us and our footprint in cyberspace? As it would turn out this isn't much of a consensual transaction but a predatory one used to exploit the masses for a profit. In the process platforms are being transformed into services that cater to every personal need by marginalized peoples interests into sub groups through big data. The process is being enabled by the emerging market for big data sets. This commodification of data is allowing platforms to optimize their services to their users and in the process the masses are losing their sense of individuality by way of being assembled into groups. This paves the way for unlimited confirmation bias for one's ideology, and predatory marketing opportunities which have an unleashed amount of psychological and economic consequences. This paper seeks to explore the societal intersectionality of how the commodification of our personal lives is affecting us, what may become of it, and ways to potentially remediate the situation.
