Tagged: sociology of algorithms

interview on NPR Morning Edition

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A little self-promotion. NPR just ran their interview with me on “Morning Edition” — based on my Culture Digitally blog post that first addressed Twitter Trends: “Can an algorithm be wrong?”. You can hear the piece and read the transcript online. The piece does manage to hit the general point that algorithms like Twitter Trends make choices about […]

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On Moderation Algorithms

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Here’s a quick thought that comes from my dissertation.  It deals with Newsvine, one of the sites on which I did fieldwork, but it involves no inside knowledge of the site.  It was originally posted on my personal site, but Hector’s recent comment interrogating the nature of algorithms inspired me to cross-post it.  I’d also […]

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