Designing Recommender Systems for the Common Good

Smets, Annelien; Walravens, Nils; Ballon, Pieter

doi:10.1145/3386392.3399570

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“…discussions on accountability). However, in this case of the urban environment, we value the explicit modelling of this category as a separate one, because in public space there is the inherent involvement of city administrations and/or governments who have to safeguard the public interest, which might conflict with others' interests (Smets et al, 2020). The increased traffic in residential areas due to the use of Waze (Fisher, 2020) is again an example of such conflicting curational logics.…”

Section: Urban Curation Logics and Multi-stakeholder Configurationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mediated by Code: Unpacking Algorithmic Curation of Urban Experiences

Smets

Ballon

Walravens

2021

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Amid the widespread diffusion of digital communication technologies, our cities are at a critical juncture as these technologies are entering all aspects of urban life. Data-driven technologies help citizens to navigate the city, find friends, or discover new places. While these technology-mediated activities come in scope of scholarly research, we lack an understanding of the underlying curation mechanisms that select and present the particular information citizens are exposed to. Nevertheless, such an understanding is crucial to deal with the risk of the socio-cultural polarization assumedly reinforced by this kind of algorithmic curation. Drawing upon the vast amount of work on algorithmic curation in online platforms, we construct an analytical lens that is applied to the urban environment to establish an understanding of algorithmic curation of urban experiences. In this way, this article demonstrates that cities could be considered as a new materiality of curational platforms. Our framework outlines the various urban information flows, curation logics, and stakeholders involved. This work contributes to the current state of the art by bridging the gap between online and offline algorithmic curation and by providing a novel conceptual framework to study this timely topic.

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Section: Urban Curation Logics and Multi-stakeholder Configurationsmentioning

confidence: 99%