A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms

D Kreiss, SC McGregor - New Media & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Scholars increasingly point to polarization as a central threat to democracy—and identify
technology platforms as key contributors to polarization. In contrast, we argue that …

What are filter bubbles really? A review of the conceptual and empirical work

L Michiels, J Leysen, A Smets, B Goethals - Adjunct proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The original filter bubble thesis states that the use of personalization algorithms results in a
unique universe of information for each of us, with far-reaching individual and societal …

Algorithmic closeness in mourning: Vernaculars of the hashtag# grief on TikTok

M Eriksson Krutrök - Social Media+ Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study looks at how mourning is expressed using the hashtag# grief on the social media
app TikTok using qualitative content analysis. In a dataset of 100 TikTok videos, this article …

Using ChatGPT to navigate ambivalent and contradictory research findings on artificial intelligence

SS Sohail, DØ Madsen, Y Himeur… - Frontiers in Artificial …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
With the rapid development and integration of AI in various domains, understanding the
nuances of AI research has become critical for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners …

Assessing enactment of content regulation policies: A post hoc crowd-sourced audit of election misinformation on YouTube

P Juneja, MM Bhuiyan, T Mitra - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With the 2022 US midterm elections approaching, conspiratorial claims about the 2020
presidential elections continue to threaten users' trust in the electoral process. To regulate …

Nudging towards news diversity: A theoretical framework for facilitating diverse news consumption through recommender design

N Mattis, P Masur, J Möller… - New Media & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Growing concern about the democratic impact of automatically curated news platforms urges
us to reconsider how such platforms should be designed. We propose a theoretical …

[HTML][HTML] A sco** review of personalized user experiences on social media: The interplay between algorithms and human factors

R Eg, ÖD Tønnesen, MK Tennfjord - Computers in Human Behavior …, 2023 - Elsevier
No social media user sees the same feed. These platforms are personalized to the
individual with the aid of algorithms that filter and prioritize content based on users' …

Media and the climate crisis

R Kunelius, A Roosvall - Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 2021 - sciendo.com
Recent years have seen another peak in global media attention to climate change. Driven
by increasingly dire news about extreme weather, growing demands of systemic adaption …

How Should We Measure Filter Bubbles? A Regression Model and Evidence for Online News

L Michiels, J Vannieuwenhuyze, J Leysen… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
News media play an important role in democratic societies. Central to fulfilling this role is the
premise that users should be exposed to diverse news. However, news recommender …

Media salience shifts and the public's perceptions about reality: How fluctuations in news media attention influence the strength of citizens' sociotropic beliefs

M Djerf-Pierre, A Shehata… - Mass Communication and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines whether shifts in news media attention to societal issues matter for
how strong beliefs citizens have about those issues. Based on an issue signal approach, in …