An algorithm, drawn by a 33-year-old female doing a post-doctorate in communication in Switzerland.

Okay, great and then second and last task would be: Draw me how an algorithm works. I would run this now and you can explain what you're drawing while you draw Okay, how does an algorithm work? The algorithm first looks at my computer to see who I am and where I am and sees, for example, that I'm in Zurich, that I've just been working on finding out something about emotions and health, and sees that I'm perhaps also frequently visiting the Bild newspaper. My algorithm will now send data to something, to a server or to a company and when I make a request, it will give me results. For example, more information about Zurich, more information about emotions, and perhaps more information about health, because the algorithm has learned that I like it very much or the algorithm notices that my computer is located in Zurich, it will send me information accordingly The algorithm are these arrows actually then? Yeah, the algorithm is more like what it does with these arrows. Okay, good. Where does your knowledge of algorithms come from? I've done some research on Google News and that's why I know how Google News works and I've more or less explained it in terms of Google News or Facebook. Okay, but out of professional and personal interest did you do this? Yes And in your everyday life, where do you encounter algorithms? Or do you come across algorithms at all? In my everyday life... Offline? [laughs] Maybe just beside business? Besides work? Whenever I'm on the Internet on sites like Facebook, Twitter or Google in general, but also when I inform myself on Spiegel Online What is the algorithm at Spiegel online? The messages that are clicked on most often are likely to be at the top of the list. Does it matter in the back of your mind? So are you somehow aware of that when you're online? Do you think about it? Of course, I am aware that I get my messages tailored and get my products tailored Okay All tweets I read are somehow tailored to my profile Do you change your behaviour accordingly or do you adapt it somehow? Hmm... Sometimes, especially when I emigrated to Switzerland, I noticed that I was very annoyed that Google only gives me Swiss results for certain things and I don't get much information about German results. So I installed a VPN client which allows me to pretend I am in Frankfurt and to get my results. Okay, great. Thanks a lot.