{"id":230,"date":"2018-09-11T12:35:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T12:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/?p=230"},"modified":"2018-09-11T12:35:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T12:35:14","slug":"reflection-5-09-10-viral-pasad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/2018\/09\/11\/reflection-5-09-10-viral-pasad\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection #5 \u2013 [09\/10] \u2013 [Viral Pasad]"},"content":{"rendered":"

PAPERS:<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Eslami <\/span>et al.<\/span><\/i>, \u201c\u201c I always assumed that I wasn\u2019t really that close to [ her ]\u201d: Reasoning about invisible algorithms in the news feed,\u201d 2015.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Bakshy, \u201cExposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook,\u201d vol. 348, no. 6239, pp. 1130\u20131133, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    SUMMARY:<\/span><\/p>\n

    The first paper deals with Facebook\u2019s \u2018algorithm\u2019 and how it\u2019s operations are opaque and yet the power they posess in influencing user\u2019s feeds and thereby virtual interactions and perhaps opinions. Using FeedVis, they do a longitudinal study of the algorithm and how the awareness of the algorithm influences the way people interact with Facebook and feel satisfied or otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The second platform deals with the algorithm\u2019s nature to make the platform, an echo chamber owing to the homophilly patterns among users with a certain ideologies or opinions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    REFLECTION:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    • The paper itself mentions and I agree, that the results from the FeedVis study were logitudinal and more knowledge about the user patterrns could be achieved by taking into account ethnography and how the algorithm works for different for different users.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Another factor which the paper briefly touches upon is that the users try to speculate about this \u2018opaque\u2019 algorithm and find ways to understand and \u2018hack\u2019 into the algorithms and thus the respective feeds of their followers. <\/span>\n
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      • One such example is the entire YouTube and Instagram community trying to constantly figure out the algorithms of the respected platforms and adjusting their activities online in accordance with those.<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Further, the lack of communication of such algorithms often demotes the feeling of a community among users and thereby affecting the user \u2018patriotism\u2019 towards the platform.<\/span>\n
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        • This was observed in the YouTube Demonitization case where several YouTubers, due to lack of effective communication from YouTube, felt less important and thus changed their online activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        • Furthermore, I would have liked if these studies were conducted in today\u2019s times, mentioning Dark Posts or Unpublished Posts and how the \u2018algorithm\u2019 treats them and how is bolsters the homophily (often political) in users.<\/span><\/li>\n
        • The use of Dark Posts is very unethical as it promotes the \u2018echo chambers\u2019 on social media sites. Not only that, the users, differing in ideologies to a certain demographic will not even see the post organically due to the \u201cunpublished ness\u201d of the post. Allegedly, even a link to that post will not take a user to that post if the user\u2019s interests have been profiled different from the targeted audience of the Dark Post. Dark Posts can not only be used for targeted marketing but also for certain other unethical areas. [1]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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          [1] – http:\/\/adage.com\/article\/digital\/facebook-drag-dark-posts-light-election\/311066\/<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          PAPERS: Eslami et al., \u201c\u201c I always assumed that I wasn\u2019t really that close to [ her ]\u201d: Reasoning about invisible algorithms in the news feed,\u201d 2015. Bakshy, \u201cExposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook,\u201d vol. 348, no. 6239, pp. 1130\u20131133, 2015.   SUMMARY: The first paper deals with Facebook\u2019s \u2018algorithm\u2019 and how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5984\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}