Algorithms, Interfaces, and the Circulation of Information: Interrogating the Epistemological Challenges of Facebook

摘要: As social and political life increasingly takes place on network sites, new epistemological questions have emerged. How can information disseminated through media be understood disentangled? potential hidden agendas or sources identified? And what mechanisms govern how is presented to the user? By drawing existing research algorithms interfaces underlying this paper provides a discussion of Facebook challenges, potentials, raised by platform. The specifically discusses ways in which shape accessed processed different kinds users as well role pre-selecting appears representable information. A key argument that Facebook, complex socio-technical human non-human actors, has profound implications for accessed, understood, circulated. In sense, user's acquisition shaped conditioned technological structure Building these arguments, suggests challenges deserve more scholarly attention, they hold wide both researchers users.