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Disentangling User Choice and Algorithmic Curation in Online Systems

Join the Cyber Policy Center on April 9th from Noon–1PM Pacific with speaker Ronald E. Robertson for Disentangling User Choice and Algorithmic Curation in Online Systems. The session will be moderated by Jeff Hancock, co director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, and is part of the Spring Seminar Series, a series spanning April through June hosted at the Cyber Policy Center. Widespread concerns about the systems that mediate our access to online information are often discussed in metaphorically compelling but operationally limited terms. Among the most prominent of such concerns, are the loosely defined concepts known as echo chambers, filter bubbles, and rabbit holes, all of which focus on the role that online systems play in spreading partisan, unreliable, or extremist information. In this talk Robertson examines how these concepts, and concerns about the impact of online systems more broadly, can be better understood and measured in terms of user choice (what people do) and algorithmic curation (what people see). To do so, he provides an overview of research that examines user choice and algorithmic curation in isolation and under controlled conditions, as well as recent research that examines how humans and algorithms interact under ecological conditions. Robertson will also discuss the implications that the findings from these studies have for researchers and policy makers, the challenges presented by new and ever-evolving systems for accessing online information, and the need for independent, ongoing, and long-term research to better understand how people interact with online systems.