Platform Algorithms and Their Effect on Civic and Political Arenas

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Ritchie, Oak
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
Abstract
  • The purpose of this research was to analyze the ways that social media platform algorithms affect user experience and thus, civic and political arenas. This paper analyzes literature on the topic that will illuminate specific ways that algorithms dictate to the user what is invisible or invisible, considered "fresh" or "irrelevant" and the implications of such digital curating.
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  • Tufekci, Zeynep
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  • Master of Science in Information Science
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 66 p.
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  • 07e11a79-3208-4dfe-8f66-a28b7a15e6c0

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