Karmic Cascades: Ranking Content and Conditioning Thought on reddit.com.
The content ranking system of reddit.com, the English language Internet's most popular social news website, plays a large but often unnoticed role in shaping what users see and how they think. By pairing informational cascade theory with textual analysis, I argue that the "karma" system elevates par...
| Publicado en: | Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 69 - 92 |
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