Paige Saunders @paige (rather than Dawn Walker @dawn as I erroneously wrote earlier!) has this great video, 'We Have An Algorithm Problem' at https://video.fedihost.co/w/a1522517-704e-44a3-aa0e-5c4e7d49e7d1, where he says that fediverse users' suspicion of algorithms is completely warranted, but now that we have been able to opt out of algorithmic content where we had zero agency, we need a conversation about what it means to opt in with algorithms under our own control.
Unveiling The Shadows: Investigating The Dark Side Of Digital Information Flow | India Education Diary
https://indiaeducationdiary.in/unveiling-the-shadows-investigating-the-dark-side-of-digital-information-flow/
In a virtual lecture on November 30, Associate Professor Julie Reid with the Department of Communication Science at the University of South Africa (UNISA) talked about the hidden consequences of algorithmic content curation for media diversity in the digital age.
#ContentAlgorithms #ContentCuration #FilterBubbles #ShrinkingFunnel #RecommenderSystems
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Prof Julie Reid from the Department of Communication Sciences in the College of Human Sciences delivered her virtual inaugural lecture titled "Digitising 'The Big Lie': Shrinkage Funnels Stemming from Algorithmic Content Curation and the Related Cons
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