As part of my coursework in the PhD in Media and Design program, I undertook an internship working with Dr. Damian Trilling at the University of Amsterdam, contributing to the NEWSFLOWS project. Given the context of increased use of both algorithmically driven news personalization and social media platforms as a space for news discovery, the…
Category: Computational Social Science
News Personalization: Do Journalism Audiences Prefer Algorithms Over Editors?
My final project-paper as part of my Master’s in Communication and Culture explores what motivates news organizations to employ algorithmically driven news personalization techniques and develops a methodology to determine whether journalism audiences have a preference between story lineups determined by an editor or by an algorithm. This work also examines whether news personalization systems…
An Automated Approach to Measuring Online Deliberation
This project proposes a framework for an automated method to measure online deliberation by analyzing commentary surrounding a complex social issue. By employing a combination of analytic calculations, alongside tools such as Google Perspective and LIWC, we assess the sentiment and quality of online deliberation using established measures of deliberation including rationality, interactivity, equality, civility…