Abstract
There are increasing concerns about how people discover news online and how algorithmic systems affect those discoveries. We investigate how individuals made sense of behavioral data and algorithmic recommendations in the context of a system that transformed their online reading activities into a new data source. We apply Goffman's frame analysis to a qualitative study of Scoopinion, a collaborative news recommender system that used tracked reading time to recommend articles from whitelisted websites. Based upon ten user interviews and one designer interview, we describe 1) the process through which reading was framed as a 'datafied' activity and 2) how behavioral data was interpreted as socially meaningful and communicative, even in the absence of overtly social system features, producing what we term 'implicit sociality'. We conclude with a discussion of how our findings about Scoopinion and its users speak to similar issues with more popular and more complex algorithmic systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | NordiCHI 2018 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Revisiting the Life Cycle - Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Pages | 125-136 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450364379 |
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| Publication status | Published - 29 Sept 2018 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Conference publication |
| Event | Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Oslo University, Oslo, Norway Duration: 29 Sept 2018 → 3 Oct 2018 Conference number: 10 http://www.nordichi2018.org/ https://www.nordichi.net/2018/index.html |
Conference
| Conference | Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction |
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| Abbreviated title | NordiCH |
| Country/Territory | Norway |
| City | Oslo |
| Period | 29/09/2018 → 03/10/2018 |
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Keywords
- Algorithmic System
- Behavioral Data
- Datafication
- Frame analysis
- Online Journalism
- Recommender systems