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Cambridge Analytica: The Scandal on Data Privacy
Get PDFConsumers need to understand the risks and consequences of sharing their lives with the world. For data analysts, even if you can create and implement a model, should you? This research paper discusses Cambridge Analytica’s methods using predictive analytics and Facebook to influence the 2016 US Presidential Election. Through examining the firm as a whole, key people involved in the scandal, methods of data collection, and Facebook’s role, the ethical boundaries of big data, predictive analytics, and data privacy are analyzed. Three perspectives were discussed in regards to ethical disparity: Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, and the consumers. Overall, this research exposes that while Cambridge Analytica and Facebook take direct blame, this scandal should serve as a “wake-up call” for consumers
The Friendly Monster and the Complacent Queer: Assimilationist Approaches to Modern Adaptations of Frankenstein\u27s Creature
Get PDFMonsters have been representations of othered communities since before the creation of the novel, so the Creature in Mary Shelley\u27s Frankenstein should be no exception. The Creature defies binaries and rages against social injustice, making him a queer figure of resistance. However, modern adaptations of the Creature attempt to assimilate the Creature into the larger culture, removing both its queerness and its resistance. This unqueering brings into question how othered populations become accepted, and the cost paid for such acceptance
