Social media platforms are more than just tools for sharing cat videos or keeping up with friends—they're powerful influencers of public opinion. The algorithms that drive these platforms determine ...

Emily Reynolds is the founder & CEO of the award-winning R Public Relations, providing expert-level PR, publicity & crisis comms services. Transparency, adaptability and consistency are crucial to ...

Daniel Angus receives funding from Australian Research Council through Discovery Projects DP200100519 ‘Using machine vision to explore Instagram’s everyday promotional cultures’, DP200101317 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carey K. Morewedge, Boston University (THE CONVERSATION) Algorithms are a staple of ...

‘For you’ offerings create a private-public space through which teens can access what they feel is a largely accurate test of their self-image. Social media apps regularly present teens with ...

New research shows that people recognize more of their biases in algorithms' decisions than they do in their own -- even when those decisions are the same. Algorithms were supposed to make our lives ...

For more than a decade, journalists and researchers have been writing about the dangers of relying on algorithms to make weighty decisions: who gets locked up, who gets a job, who gets a loan — even ...

As Christian Lous Lange wisely noted, "Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master," highlighting the dual nature of social media and the importance of managing their influence on our lives.

Social media apps regularly present teens with algorithmically selected content often described as “for you,” suggesting, by implication, that the curated content is not just “for you” but also “about ...

Carving your own niche on social media today is harder than ever. Be it getting enough reach on Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts, cracking the numbers game is a moving goalpost and understanding ...