📝 On algorithmic curation, its benefits, and harms

• How TikTok's Algorithm Figures You Out (WSJ video essay)
• Understanding Social Media Recommendation Algorithms
• Understanding Recommenders series
• Humans and Algorithms Work Together, So Study Them Together
• Demoted, Deleted, and Denied: There’s More Than Just Shadowbanning on Instagram
• The Algorithmic Crystal: Conceptualizing the Self through Algorithmic Personalization on TikTok

🎛️ On user controls

• Dark Patterns In User Control: Exploring YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm
• Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained
• About Engaging and Governing Strategies: A Thematic Analysis of Dark Patterns in Social Networking Services

📰 On algorithmic choice

• Algorithmic Choice
• What if You Knew What You Were Missing on Social Media?
• Radical Proposal: Middleware Could Give Consumers Choices Over What They See Online

📱 On optimizing for engagement

• What’s right & what’s wrong with optimizing for engagement?
• Ranking by Engagement
• The Challenge of Understanding What Users Want: Inconsistent Preferences and Engagement Optimization

🏫 Centers studying algorithmic impact

• Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
• Data & Society AIM lab
• Center for Constructive Communication
• All Tech is Human Youth + Wellbeing initiative

🗳 Groups working on related technology policy issues

• Design It For Us
• Encode Justice
• Good For Media

🏢 Tech companies' explainers of how their algorithms work

• Instagram: What is the Instagram Feed? (an interactive explainer)
• Meta: Our Approach to Explaining Ranking
• TikTok: How TikTok Recommends videos #ForYou
• TikTok: How TikTok recommends content

🔎 On algorithmic curation and legality

• Amplification and its Discontents
• Everything you need to know about Section 230

📱 On broader AI ethics, bias, and myths

• AI Myths
• Survival of the Best Fit (educational game)

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