Algorithm [draft] [#digitalkeywords]
“What we are really concerned with when we invoke the “algorithmic” here is not the algorithm per se but the insertion of procedure into human knowledge and social experience. What makes something...
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Facebook’s algorithm — why our assumptions are wrong, and our concerns are right
Many of us who study new media, whether we do so experimentally or qualitatively, our data big or small, are tracking the unfolding debate about the Facebook “emotional contagion” study, published...
View ArticleWhen Science, Customer Service, and Human Subjects Research Collide. Now What?
My brothers and sisters in data science, computational social science, and all of us studying and building the Internet of things inside or outside corporate firewalls, to improve a product, explore a...
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Journalism in an era of big data: Cases, concepts, and critiques
I’m excited to announce the publication of a special issue of Digital Journalism that I guest-edited around the theme “Journalism in an Era of Big Data: Cases, Concepts, and Critiques.” I was fortunate...
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#trendingistrending: when algorithms become culture
I wanted to share a new essay, “#Trendingistrending: When Algorithms Become Culture” that I’ve just completed for a forthcoming Routledge anthology called Algorithmic Cultures: Essays on Meaning,...
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Facebook Trending: It’s made of people!! (but we should have already known that)
Gizmodo has released two important articles (1, 2) about the people who were hired to manage Facebook’s “Trending” list. The first reveals not only how Trending topics are selected and packaged on...
View ArticleAlgorithms, clickworkers, and the befuddled fury around Facebook Trends
The controversy about the human curators behind Facebook Trends has grown, since the allegations made last week by Gizmodo. Besides being a major headache for Facebook, it has helped prod a growing...
View ArticleKeyword: Algorithm
The algorithm, Tarleton Gillespie argues in this terrific essay, stands as a complex administrator of modern life. In it Gillespie demystifies the many uses of the recent keyword algorithm, on loan...
View ArticleIs Social Media Killing Democracy?
This is the big year for computational propaganda—using immense data sets to manipulate public opinion over social media. Both the Brexit referendum and US election have revealed the limits of modern...
View ArticleCFP: Algorithms, Automation, and News (Munich, May 22-23, 2018)
Algorithms and automation increasingly are connected to many aspects of news production, distribution, and consumption. We invite original, unpublished papers to address such issues at an...
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