Assessing and fostering college students’ algorithm awareness across online contexts
Jessica E. Brodsky; Dvora Zomberg; Kasey L. Powers; Patricia J. Brooks · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Internet users may fail to recognize how algorithms filter and personalize information. Two studies explored college students’ algorithm awareness across varying contexts. Study 1 examined Facebook users’ awareness of its algorithms (N = 222). Only about half recognized that Facebook does not show all their friends’ posts. These students more often reported …