Tag Archive for: Social media and algorithms

What Viral Emotion Challenges Reveal About Data Extraction
Digital Sovereignty and Trustworthy SystemsEvery few months a new format takes over social media, and most of them are gone within weeks. This one's different: it asks people to say the same sentence in a handful of emotions, and it turns out that's almost exactly what AI companies need to train systems to recognise how we feel.

Likes/Dislikes: The Internet’s Quantitative Quandary
Critical Literacies & Human AgencyA Bird’s Eye View…
The widespread use of social media among the general public has introduced an unprecedented variable into the equations of political scientists. In a desperate bid to understand it, the closest comparison many have made…