-
The enormous financial success of online advertising platforms is partially due to the precise targeting features they offer. Although researchers and journalists have found many ways that advertisers can target—or […]
-
The passage from a read-only to a read-write Web gave people the possibility to freely interact, share and collaborate through social networks, online communities, blogs, wikis and other online collaborative […]
-
From 2010 to 2011, I worked on YouTube’s artificial intelligence recommendation engine—the algorithm that directs what you see next based on your previous viewing habits and searches. One of my […]
-
Problems of bias and fairness are central to data justice, as they speak directly to the threat that ‘big data’ and algorithmic decision-making may worsen already existing injustices. In the […]
-
Misleading information is nothing new, yet its impacts seem only to grow. We investigate this phenomenon in the context of social bots. Social bots are software agents that mimic hu- […]
-
With more than 71% of internet users using Online Social Media (OSM), it has become an important platform for people to share ideas, information and various forms of expressions. However, […]
-
Self-injurious behavior is often practiced in secrecy or involves body parts that are easy to hide, making early detection difficult and hampering intervention and treatment. However, cutting, one of the […]
-
Worldwide, people profit from equally accessible online health information via search engines. Therefore, equal access to health information is a global imperative. We studied one specific scenario, in which Google […]
-
Due to the growth and popularity of Twitter, automated programs that can tweet are increasingly developed and employed. In line with the Computers Are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm (Reeves & […]
