TY - GEN
T1 - FeedVis
T2 - 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015
AU - Eslami, Motahhare
AU - Aleyasen, Amirhossein
AU - Karahalios, Kyratso George
AU - Hamilton, Kevin
AU - Sandvig, Christian
PY - 2015/2/28
Y1 - 2015/2/28
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Algorithms
KW - Invisible processes
KW - News feeds
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U2 - 10.1145/2685553.2702690
DO - 10.1145/2685553.2702690
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84939205902
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 65
EP - 68
BT - CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 14 March 2015 through 18 March 2015
ER -