For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

While social media algorithms have become excellent at matching a user's viewing habits with targeted, personalized content, psychologists at The University of Texas at Dallas have found that these ...

The development of digital technology has changed the way humans obtain information and understand political reality. In the past, propaganda was synonymous with posters, radio, or television, but now ...

For years, social media algorithms have influenced what people wear, buy, and save to their mood boards. Fashion trends once moved season by season, but today they can rise and disappear within days.

The Donald Trump administration has raised concerns that Australia’s proposed social media algorithm rules could give regulators too much influence over how platforms recommend and filter content. On ...

Dr. Stacie Warren (left) and Dr. Alva Tang used neuroimaging to explore algorithm-recommended content, how that content is processed by the brain and symptoms of depression in a proof-of-concept study ...

Do your social media accounts feed you content that reflects your core beliefs and guiding principles? Our new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the ...

Do your social media accounts feed you content that reflects your core beliefs and guiding principles? Our new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the ...

Social media algorithms determine what billions of users see daily, yet most creators barely scratch the surface of how they operate. Platforms prioritize content ranking using engagement metrics, ...

But the real question is: connected to what? Parker Woodroof, Ph.D., a social media expert and associate professor of marketing at the Collat School of Business at the University of Alabama at ...

Grew up back East, got sick of the cold and headed West. Since I was small I have been pushing buttons – both electronic and human. With an insatiable need for tech I thought “why not start a website ...