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Record W4388980952 · doi:10.55016/ojs/muj.v1i2.77457

Algorithmic Bias of Social Media

2023· article· en· W4388980952 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Motley Undergraduate Journal · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicDigital Media and Philosophy
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPopularitySocial mediaVisibilityInternet privacyContent (measure theory)User-generated contentAdvertisingOnline communityWorld Wide WebPromotion (chess)Resistance (ecology)Computer scienceMultimediaBusinessPolitical science

Abstract

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Social media apps like YouTube and Instagram came as platforms that allowed users to express themselves freely to their friends and families, but corporations changed social media down to its core. Due to the rising popularity of short video-based content on TikTok, platforms like Instagram introduced similar content to capitalize on the hype that TikTok created. In doing so, Instagram made changes to the content promotion algorithm to promote “Reels” over the other content options. Driven by profits the company stopped caring about their users, leading to backlash from the community. Creators on the platform started playing a visibility game (Cotter, 2019) to grow and be seen in user feeds, the “game” pushes them to make content they would not be making in the first place and following trends. In this paper I am looking at the case of a creator in the photography community affected by these changes in algorithm and analyzing the situation through a critical media theory framework. The study discusses the practices of the platform and the effects on the creator community while also looking at resistance from users. I also discuss a new potential alternative platform to Instagram for photographers, that markets itself as a platform built without an algorithm, for a community.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.627
Threshold uncertainty score0.310

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.061
GPT teacher head0.260
Teacher spread0.198 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it