Filter Bubble

a filter bubble is something you have no control over. it is something auto generated by the search programs you use. Google, bing, yahoo, ask, any search engine or website you use creates a filter bubble for you, whether you want it or not. it gives you results based on what you have previously searched for. it filters your results, even if you do not want them to be filtered. I feel that is not a good thing to have. if i am working on a paper, i want all the results, not just the ones a complex algorithm has created for me. if the stuff i have previously searched is causing the algorithm to filter out certain results for a topic i am currently researching, that is completely useless to me, and may be giving me biased information depending on what view of a topic i have searched before. i personally feel our results should not be filtered as they are, it is almost in some way a sort of censorship, which should not occur without our permission. It could be seen as a violation of our first amendment rights because something is filtering our information without our permission. Filter bubbles could be a good thing, but only if you had the option to use it or not.

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PROMPT:  Now that you’ve done some research, the focus of your research question might have changed. Post your research question here as well as a summary of what your argument is going to be. You have books and articles so far, so also discuss what other kinds of information you need to make your argument. Aim for at least 200 words on this one.

My topic is "injuries in football, and how to help prevent them"

The NFL is doing a pretty decent job at helping protect from injuries. There are lots of penalties for certain hits, and actions that could cause harm to a player.

I do not have too many arguments yet, because i am still working on making this into the question i would like it to be(although I am not positive what that is yet).

I would need a lot more articles, and could possibly draw some information from some videos made related to injuries. Websites related to health of NFL players would also be a very good one.

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I am undeclared, but my intended major is physical education. It turned up a lot of results, and is a very popular search field i would assume, since there is a lot of information on it. It was one of the suggested topics, so i did not have to search much. but it gave mea wide variety of results, which i suppose could be either good or bad, but that meant i had to do a lot of searching and specifying through the articles. there was a lot of information on anything i could have wanted to search related to education, it was just a little more difficult to find the physical education aspect of it. The discovery tool is not as narrowing as searching more databases, limiting your results to just what you want. I would want to use the discovery tool when just discovering topics, and getting a broad overview of a subject, as the name references. I would search more specific databases based on my question or what i am looking for. You could use either tool and still come up with the results you would want, it would just be more difficult and time consuming. I find both tools very useful though.

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