I always assumed that I wasn't really that close to [her]": Reasoning about invisible algorithms in news feeds

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-April, Issue , 2015, Pages 153-162

  Eslami, Motahhare ^a   Rickman, Aimee ^b   Vaccaro, Kristen ^a   Aleyasen, Amirhossein ^a   Vuong, Andy ^a   Karahalios, Karrie ^a   Hamilton, Kevin ^a   Sandvig, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm awareness; Algorithms; Hidden processes; News feeds

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CURATION; DIGITAL LIFE; FACEBOOK; NEWS FEEDS; PERSONALIZED SEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA; USER STUDY; USERS' EXPERIENCES;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84951142438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702556     Document Type: Conference Paper

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