FeedVis: A path for exploring news feed curation algorithms

Motahhare Eslami; Amirhossein Aleyasen; Kyratso George Karahalios; Kevin Hamilton; Christian Sandvig

doi:10.1145/2685553.2702690

FeedVis: A path for exploring news feed curation algorithms

Motahhare Eslami, Amirhossein Aleyasen, Kyratso George Karahalios, Kevin Hamilton, Christian Sandvig

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

Social media feeds, personalized search results and recommendations are examples of algorithmically curated content in our daily digital Life. While the algorithms that curated this content have great power to shape users' experiences, they are mostly hidden behind the interface, leaving users unaware of their presence. Whether it is helpful to give users knowledge of the algorithms' existence and if this knowledge affects interaction behavior are open questions. To assist us in addressing these questions, we developed a system, FeedVis, that exposes Facebook users to comparisons between algorithmically curated and unadulterated News Feeds. We used the tools visualizations as concrete artifacts to study users' perceptions of the algorithms governing their social media feeds.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	65-68
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450329224
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2685553.2702690
State	Published - Feb 28 2015
Event	2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: Mar 14 2015 → Mar 18 2015

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
Volume	2015-January

Other

Other	2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015
Country	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	3/14/15 → 3/18/15

Keywords

Algorithms
Invisible processes
News feeds

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications

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Eslami, M., Aleyasen, A., Karahalios, K. G., Hamilton, K., & Sandvig, C. (2015). FeedVis: A path for exploring news feed curation algorithms. In CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 65-68). (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW; Vol. 2015-January). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2685553.2702690

FeedVis : A path for exploring news feed curation algorithms. / Eslami, Motahhare; Aleyasen, Amirhossein; Karahalios, Kyratso George ; Hamilton, Kevin; Sandvig, Christian.

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 65-68 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW; Vol. 2015-January).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Eslami, M, Aleyasen, A, Karahalios, KG , Hamilton, K & Sandvig, C 2015, FeedVis: A path for exploring news feed curation algorithms. in CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, vol. 2015-January, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 65-68, 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015, Vancouver, Canada, 3/14/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2685553.2702690

Eslami M, Aleyasen A, Karahalios KG , Hamilton K, Sandvig C. FeedVis: A path for exploring news feed curation algorithms. In CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery. 2015. p. 65-68. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). https://doi.org/10.1145/2685553.2702690

Eslami, Motahhare ; Aleyasen, Amirhossein ; Karahalios, Kyratso George ; Hamilton, Kevin ; Sandvig, Christian. / FeedVis : A path for exploring news feed curation algorithms. CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. pp. 65-68 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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