Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Senior Theses and Projects Student Scholarship Spring 2018 The Deception of Data: How Millennials’ Political Views on Data Guide Their Use and Understanding of Facebook Griffin Drigotas Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses Part of the Digital Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Drigotas, Griffin, "The Deception of Data: How Millennials’olitical P Views on Data Guide Their Use and Understanding of Facebook". Senior Theses, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 2018. Trinity College Digital Repository, https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses/692 TRINITY COLLEGE SENIOR THESIS THE DECEPTION OF DATA: HOW MILLENNIALS’ POLITICAL VIEWS ON DATA GUIDE THEIR USE AND UNDERSTANDING OF FACEBOOK Submitted by Griffin J. Drigotas 27 April 2018 In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Honors in American Studies 2018 Director: Professor Scott Gac Advisor: Professor Jack Gieseking Second Reader: Professor Thomas Wickman Drigotas 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2 INTRODUCTION: The Facebook Fallacy 3 CHAPTER ONE: Identifiers 32 CHAPTER TWO: Facial Recognition 55 CHAPTER THREE: Geolocation 76 CONCLUSION: For a Different Future 94 APPENDIX 100 BIBLIOGRAPHY: 101 Drigotas 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank you . To Professor Gieseking . for always making me question the things we take for granted and for first introducing me to the study of data. Without you and your guidance, this project would be nothing. I appreciate every moment of your time that has dedicated to my success over the past several years. To the American Studies Department . for providing me an academic home for the past four years. To Professor Scott Gac, Professor Davarian Baldwin, Professor Christina Heatherton, Professor Diana Paulin, Dr.