
Algorithmic curation is the selection of
online media
In mass communication, digital media is any communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronic ...
by
recommendation algorithms and
personalized search
Personalized search is a web search tailored specifically to an individual's interests by incorporating information about the individual beyond the specific query provided. There are two general approaches to Personalization, personalizing search ...
es. Examples include
search engine
A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages, and other relevant information on World Wide Web, the Web in response to a user's web query, query. The user enters a query in a web browser or a mobile app, and the sea ...
and
social media
Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the Content creation, creation, information exchange, sharing and news aggregator, aggregation of Content (media), content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongs ...
products
[ such as the Twitter feed, ]Facebook
Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...
's News Feed, and the Google Personalized Search.
Curation algorithms are typically proprietary or "black box
In science, computing, and engineering, a black box is a system which can be viewed in terms of its inputs and outputs (or transfer characteristics), without any knowledge of its internal workings. Its implementation is "opaque" (black). The te ...
", leading to concern about algorithmic bias and the creation of filter bubble
A filter bubble or ideological frame is a state of intellectual isolationTechnopediaDefinition – What does Filter Bubble mean?, Retrieved October 10, 2017, "....A filter bubble is the intellectual isolation, that can occur when websites make ...
s.
See also
* Algorithmic radicalization
Algorithmic radicalization is the concept that recommender algorithms on popular social media sites such as YouTube and Facebook drive users toward progressively more extreme content over time, leading to them developing Radicalization, radicaliz ...
* Ambient awareness
* Influence-for-hire
Influence-for-hire or collective influence, refers to the economy that has emerged around buying and selling influence on social media platforms.
Overview
Companies that engage in the influence-for-hire industry range from content farms to h ...
* Social bot
A social bot, also described as a social AI or social algorithm, is a software agent that communicates autonomously on social media. The messages (e.g. tweets) it distributes can be simple and operate in groups and various configurations with ...
* Social data revolution
* Social influence bias
* Social media bias
* Social media intelligence
* Social profiling
* Virtual collective consciousness
References
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Social media
Mass media monitoring
Social influence
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