Short answer quiz #3 - Due 11/20
The social media site I will be creating an algorithm for is a micro-blog, Wuphf.com.
Wuphf.com will measure users’ activity, followers, comments, uploads, searches, saves, hashtags, likes, and reblogs.
The content users will receive and be recommended will be weighed heavily on the content the users seek the most and what pages they follow. The site will make daily recommendations on accounts, posts, trending content to its users. The user can then choose what they want to keep or discard. If the user keeps and saves the recommended content, more recommendations of similar scope will show up on their feed. If the user discards the suggestions, then the site will stop showing that content on the user’s page.
The factors that will not be measured are the user’s demographics, such as age, gender, region, race, and culture. The content will not be recommended to users based on their demographic information. I prefer they tailor their own feed to their interests and liking. Users may not like it when they are recommended something continuously because of their age or gender. Additionally, they may have interests that do not relate to their demographics.
The site will learn or adapt to new information by processing it and storing it. This will allow the site to become familiar with new information and know what is acceptable to publicize. For example, if harassment or harmful information is going around, the algorithm will learn to respond to the problem and make sure it stops, blocks, or deletes the content from showing up.
The biases that will be built into the program are to hide or discard harmful, offensive, or inappropriate content and users. If the negative content cannot be deleted by the program immediately, it should limit the content from showing on people’s feeds as much as possible.
The model will live out the ethical practices we have discussed in class, such as identity tourism, internetworked global feminism and social movement, participatory culture. Identity tourism will be practiced by allowing users to be whoever they would like to be online. Also, internetworked global feminism and social movement will be involved because it will allow women to participate form a community to speak about experiences and injustices they receive. Additionally, participatory culture will be practiced by having users share ideas and common interests to form to create content.
Hello Jasmin
Your short answer response was very well thought out and thorough. Your social media name is quite creative and I enjoy how you spoke about not measuring age, sex or race. Looking back on my social media platform I wish I also wrote about not measuring these statistics. You wrote about putting biases to help limit discriminatory content but what specific algorithms are you going to equip the site with?




















