Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Algorithms”
Personnalisation, danger and opportunity
Algorithms sort the information presented to each user. But because there are “type 3” services, it is possible to personalize the advertising and non-advertising information that is presented to everyone.
As a result, each user is exposed to different information. And it is a vicious circle: the more we look at information, the more the same type of information will be put forward by algorithms, and the more we will look at this same type of information, thus locking ourselves in very comfortable “bubbles”, far from information that could call into question our own ideas. In some cases, recommendation algorithms lead to radicalization.
Of the influence of algorithms
Have you ever wondered why one result comes ahead of another in a search? Or why your social network information feed was arranged in that order?
At work are algorithms. To make the service work, they evaluate, according to more or less clear criteria, what needs to be highlighted. And this power to sort information is crucial: what happens on or after the second page is often ignored due to time constraints. Of course it’s not deleted, of course whoever wants to find it will find it. But at the societal level, it is statistics that matter. And statistics show that it is the first information that counts.