Exploring Echo-Systems: How Algorithms Shape Immersive Media Environments
James N. Cohen · DOAJ Open Access Articles
In the lead up to the 2016 election, fake news often “outperformed” actual news in users’ social media feeds (Silverman, 2016). This paper attempts to analyze the process in which fake news proliferates social networking sites and presents a method of understanding and articulating ways in which personalized feeds are shaped by algorithm-based user feedback.…