Thus came the new advent of advanced advertising and engagement companies. And they like the loud, repetitive sort of attention-grabbing: The kind that reaches you via your devices, chips at bits of your time, bases their engagement models on personal data, and makes you feel anything, even if that feeling is annoyance. At this point, advertising has become a war on our silly little shrinking attention spans, and there’s an entire market with psychology and tech experts dedicated to winning this war. I personally think it’s all anti-user, but that’s just me. My pet theory is that Discord withstood the massive controversy they faced from brightening their iconic brand color to capture more attention on home screens, in competition with already brightly-colored social apps like Twitter, Reddit, and Snapchat. My theory is further proven by Instagram doing the exact same thing a year later. Overall, I fear a future where Push Notifications turn into another outlet for the cacophony of everything trying to get our attention.

City staff will now prepare a funding submission to the Province of BC. Based on community feedback and additional technical analysis, the Preferred Option is a hybrid concept, combining some of the key infrastructure enhancements and flood-mitigation concepts originally identified in Options 2, 3 and 4. View details about the new hybrid option in the flatsheet and comparison chart. Through the engagement period, City staff learned the top three priorities for Abbotsford participants were avoiding damage to buildings, barns and other infrastructure, preserving existing and for agriculture and food security and maximizing opportunities for agriculture. Common key themes from community feedback included the desire to meet provincial standards for flood mitigation, plan for the long-term and prepare for more regular Flooding email meaning events, address the issues to avoid repeating past events, protect future generations and future investments and reduce potential impacts on homes, farms, businesses and transportation routes. More details about the engagement process and the feedback received can be viewed here.

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As compared to other more popular, globalised platforms, texts on Weibo are not as commonly used in the task of author profiling. This is likely due to the centralisation of Weibo in the Chinese population of mainland China, limiting its usage to predominantly China Nationals. Studies done for this platform have used bots, machine learning algorithms to identify authors' age and gender. Data is acquired from Weibo microblog posts of willing participants to be analysed, and used to train algorithms that build concept-based profiles of users to a certain accuracy. Chat logs have been studied for author profiling as they include much textual discourse, the analysis of which have contributed to applicational studies including social trends and forensic science. Sources of data for author profiling from chat logs include platforms such as Yahoo! AIM (software) and WhatsApp. Computational systems have been devised to produce concept-based profiles listing chat topics discussed in a single chat room or by independent users.

In the same way Borgmann argues that nuanced labour, expertise, and experience are flattened through commodification, part of the alone together phenomenon is that rich dimensions of human relationships are commodified through technological means of connection. This sort of commodification exerts a soft determination upon the sorts of engagement made possible through communication technology and is central to IndieWeb’s objection to corporate platforms. Especially in my discussion of Bridgy’s relationship with Facebook’s API in Chapter 7, it is clear that responses to this objection are not all-or-nothing. If you order your food from SeamlessWeb (it delivers a ready-to-eat gourmet meal to your doorstep) and eat it while surfing the internet, you are in the thrall of technology. If on a late afternoon you and your children go harvesting in your vegetable garden and if in the evening you prepare the meal with your spouse and sit down to dinner with your beloved, you are blessed. If on the way home you pick up prepared food at the store, warm it, wait for your spouse, and sit down to eat it with her, you are on the side of the angels.