Under the Twitter streetlight : How data scarcity distorts research
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/data-access-researchers-left-on-read
As part of our #LeftOnRead campaign, several researchers testified to the reluctance of online platforms to provide useful data. Many resort to studying Twitter, which is more accommodating than most. Tiziano Bonini, an associate professor at the University of Siena, began an ethnographic investigation of online music platforms in late 2017, together with his colleague Alessandro Gandini of the University of Milan. As the discovery and consumption of cultural artifacts, including songs, (...)
#TikTok #Facebook #Spotify #Snapchat #Instagram #Twitter #YouTube #algorithme #manipulation #données #biais #enseignement (...)