Streaming Media Magazine

The Art and Science of OTT Recommendation Algorithms

Learn more about OTT recommendation and discovery at Streaming Media East. See complete videos and other highlights from Streaming Media West Connect on Streaming Media's YouTube channel. Read the ...
Santa Clara University

On Recommendation Algorithms and What Makes Us Boring

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Wired magazine’s “spiritual advice columnist,” Meghan O’Ghieblyn, ...
Engadget

How social media recommendation algorithms help spread hate

Last week, the United States Senate played host to a number of social media company VPs during hearings on the potential dangers presented by algorithmic bias and amplification. While that meeting ...
MIT Technology Review

Hated that video? YouTube’s algorithm might push you another just like it.

New research from Mozilla shows that user controls have little effect on which videos YouTube’s influential AI recommends. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm drives 70% of what people watch on the ...
NBC New York

Twitter Makes Its Recommendation Algorithm Open Source — Here's How it Works

Twitter is giving users a peek behind the curtain as it begins the process of taking away blue check marks. Most of the recommendation algorithm will be made open source today. The rest will follow.
Engadget

Bipartisan bill seeks to curb recommendation algorithms

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced legislation that would give people more control over the algorithms that shape their online experience. If passed ...