How do platform algorithms affect (marginalized) communities?
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What is cultural, what is technical, what is purposeful?
goal?
- how does the algorithm “construct contradictory identity spaces that at once support LGBTQ+ identitywork and reaffirm LGBTQ+ identity, while also transgressing and violating individual user identity intersections”
method?
- 16 interviews
algorithmic exclusion … construct and reconstruct exclusionary structures within a bounded sociotechnical system, or more broadly across societal structures. (Simpson & Semaan 2021, p. 24)
How?
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In [Giddens’] view, the ability to both routinely enact and assume an identity while also seeing aspects of one’s identity visually represented in others provides individuals a sense of security about their existence. (Simpson & Semaan 2021, p. 3)
made our participants feel as though their identities are not as worthy of being seen by others within the community they imagine themselves a part of on TikTok. (Simpson & Semaan 2021, p. 21)
- subreddits; problems of “brigading”
Mastodon
- federation and block mechanisms
- (weakly) hashtags; problems of “tag-crashing”
BlueSky
- hashtags; custom feeds; shared mod lists
Other questions, insights, or connections?
ex. Design alternative??
Propose 5 (bullet-point) recommendations for systems and algorithms that support healthy and diverse online communities?
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What were your recommendations for healthy and diverse online communities? ▶