Serendipity as an emerging design principle of the infosphere: challenges and opportunities

Reviglio, Urbano

doi:10.1007/s10676-018-9496-y

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“…However, recent studies in the domain of news media suggest that filter bubble effects are overrated and that recommender or search algorithms do not severely impact content diversity (Fletcher and Nielsen, 2018;Möller et al, 2018). Additionally, recent technological developments try to redesign recommender systems in such a way that they favor novelty, diversity and serendipity (Reviglio, 2019). Nevertheless, future research should check the transferability of these results to cultural consumption.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

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Digital omnivores? How digital media reinforce social inequalities in cultural consumption

Weingartner

2020

New Media & Society

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In cultural consumption, higher social status is primarily reflected in the consumption of cultural products from diverse levels of sophistication, denoted as cultural omnivorousness. The article asks whether digital media are capable of attenuating these inequalities. Since digital media potentially make cultural products from all levels available to wider audiences, the distinguishing effect of omnivorousness might shrink. However, based on a model of individual decision-making, the article discusses several reasons why this assessment might be too optimistic. Empirically, the article focuses on omnivorousness and media use in feature film consumption. Differentiating between four types of electronic media (television, DVD, video on demand, Internet) and two types of omnivorousness (“by volume,” “by composition”), results reveal that digital media rather reinforce social inequalities in cultural consumption. Television, in contrast, has the highest levels of omnivorousness and the lowest levels of social structuration. Hence, not digital media are a democratizing force, but television.

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Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

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Digital omnivores? How digital media reinforce social inequalities in cultural consumption

Weingartner

2020

New Media & Society

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“…Showcase the hidden richness and diversity of content. Recommenders are used to display news that does not make it to the front page, items that have not been seen by the user but have serendipity value (Reviglio 2019), or that are important (by editorial standards), or just different (i.e., niche content). Algorithmic recommenders can also be used to prove that newsrooms do their job properly and keep track of the news of the world, even if that news does not interest a particular individual.…”

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“…Second, algorithms require the formalization of editorial decisions on news and entertainment value, serendipity, diversity, social relevance and importance into specific algorithmic arrangements. How to conceptualize these dynamic, subjective and often deliberately weakly defined considerations in the language of computer science poses challenges (Helberger, Karppinen, and D'Acunto 2018;Reviglio 2019). Third, the same technologies and data that are used to personalize news are used to deliver online advertising.…”

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Selling News to Audiences – A Qualitative Inquiry into the Emerging Logics of Algorithmic News Personalization in European Quality News Media

Bodó

2019

Digital Journalism

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How do news organizations design and implement algorithmically personalized news services? We conducted 16 in-depth interviews with professionals working in European public service broadcasting and commercial quality news media to answer this question. The news business is undergoing rapid transformations regarding how news production is financed, how news is produced and delivered to audiences and how citizens consume news. In all of these changes algorithmic recommender systems play a role. We focus on news organizations' own personalized news services, and analyze how they define the role of personalization in contributing to the financial success of the organization, in reaching and retaining audiences, and in fulfilling their editorial mission. We interviewed editors, journalists, technologists and business intelligence and publishing professionals to gain a structural understanding of the often conflicting goals of personalization. We found that rather than focusing on increasing short-term user engagement, European quality news media try to use news personalization to increase long-term audience loyalty. In distinction to the "platform logic of personalization", which uses personalization to produce engagement and sell audiences to advertisers, they have developed a "news logic of personalization", which uses personalization to sell news to audiences.

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“…(FOSTER;FORD, 2003 Foster e Ford (2003), a serendipidade foi considerada como parte integrante do processo criativo das Artes e Humanidades, das Ciências Sociais e de outros campos científicos, entretanto a experiência com tal abordagem pode ser distinta entre diferentes áreas do conhecimento. Reviglio (2019) entende que a serendipidade é um processo complexo que ocorre na Ciência, mas também em todos os domínios da vida, e abrange curiosidade, pesquisa e descoberta. Björneborn (2017) também entende que a serendipidade é um elemento fundamental em nossas vidas e culturas, porém talvez seja subestimada.…”

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Serendipidade no contexto da Ciência da Informação: perspectivas para os estudos com sujeitos informacionais

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Farias

2020

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Objetivo: A serendipidade se consolidou no âmbito das descobertas científicas e tem sido investigada na literatura científica internacional do campo da Ciência da Informação no que diz respeito à interação dos sujeitos informacionais com ambientes e sistemas de informação, bem como com a informação propriamente dita. Considerando sua importância nas áreas de estudo que tratam sobre os sujeitos informacionais, este artigo tem como objetivos: investigar como a serendipidade tem sido abordada no contexto da Ciência da Informação em relação aos seus aspectos teórico-conceituais; e apresentar suas contribuições preliminares para os estudos de Comportamento Informacional e Competência em Informação.Método: Foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica e de abordagem qualitativa.Resultado: Os resultados demonstram que a serendipidade contribui de forma significativa com os estudos mencionados.Conclusões: Conclui-se que a Ciência da Informação brasileira poderia desenvolver estudos teóricos e empíricos em relação à serendipidade, de modo a aplicar seus fundamentos em pesquisas junto aos sujeitos informacionais.

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Serendipity as an emerging design principle of the infosphere: challenges and opportunities

Cited by 53 publications

References 63 publications

Digital omnivores? How digital media reinforce social inequalities in cultural consumption

Digital omnivores? How digital media reinforce social inequalities in cultural consumption

Selling News to Audiences – A Qualitative Inquiry into the Emerging Logics of Algorithmic News Personalization in European Quality News Media

Serendipidade no contexto da Ciência da Informação: perspectivas para os estudos com sujeitos informacionais

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