Will the global village fracture into tribes recommender systems and their effects on consumer fragmentation

Management Science

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 805-823

  Hosanagar, Kartik ^a   Fleder, Daniel ^a   Lee, Dokyun ^a   Buja, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Electronic commerce; Filter bubble; Information systems; Recommendation systems

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

FILTER BUBBLE; INTERNET USERS; MEDIA CONSUMPTION; ONLINE POPULATION; PERSONALIZATIONS; PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION; SHARED EXPERIENCES; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84899470905     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2013.1808     Document Type: Article

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