Have you ever wondered why certain posts always appear at the top of your Instagram or Facebook feed while others seem to ...

What we’re seeing is the slow death of the feed and the rebirth of the forum. Social media is becoming less about ...

The social media platforms where we spend so much time are powered by algorithms that exercise significant control over what content each user sees. But researchers know little specific detail ...

Social media companies are very good at knowing what content people find reinforcing, and their algorithms keep your preferred content coming to your platform. Using social media is also linked to ...

The decisions around the types of posts that we see when scrolling through social media are in the hands of algorithms rather than people, computer programs ran by companies that own the app or ...

Then there's the lack of transparency: recommenders are the closely guarded secrets of the social media, search and ad-serving giants that dominate the web. Algorithms now mediate almost all ...