Want to be on the top? Algorithmic power and the threat of invisibility on Facebook

By Taina Bucher. New Media & Society, 2012

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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The algorithmic imaginary: exploring the ordinary affects of Facebook algorithms (2017, background): “As Bucher has argued, the Facebook algorithm tends to only reward the ‘ right ’ kind of sharing, giving certain kinds of posts more visibility at the expense of others (Bucher, 2012).”
Making It “Facebook Official”: Reflecting on Romantic Relationships Through Sustained Facebook Use (2016, background): “Beyond the logic and immediacy of the news feed (Bucher, 2012), through its everyday use, Facebook has also come to serve as an archive of life narratives and key moments, as disclosures are recorded and stored by default. For instance, Sauter (2013) talks about “folding and unfolding” selves throug”
Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology (2014, background): “Facebook turned social activities such as “friending” and “liking” into algorithmic relations (Bucher 2012; Helmond and Gerlitz 2013); Twitter popularized people’s online personas and promoted ideas by creating “followers” and “retweet” functions (Kwak et al. 2010); LinkedIn translated professional…”
Thinking critically about and researching algorithms (2014, background): “Examining one version of an algorithm will then provide a snapshot reading that fails to acknowledge or account for the mutable and often multiple natures of algorithms and their work (Bucher, 2012).”
Digital education governance: data visualization, predictive analytics, and ‘real-time’ policy instruments (2016, neutral): “…of the functional principles of these devices, not in order to specify their technical operations but ‘ to be able to understand some of the logics or principles of their functioning in order to critically engage with the ways in which systems work on a theoretical level ’ (Bucher 2012, 1177).”
Unifying the detrimental and beneficial effects of social network site use on self-esteem: a systematic literature review (2019, background): “Furthermore, SNS algorithms selectively present personalized content to users that raise the frequency of seeing information in subjectively relevant comparison domains (Bucher, 2012).”
The Relevance of Algorithms (2013, background): “…lógicas de funcionamento desses algoritmos não apenas moldem as práticas dos usuários, mas também os levem a internalizar suas normas e prioridades: Bucher (2012) argumenta que o algoritmo EdgeRank, usado pelo Facebook para determinar quais atualizações de status são prioritariamente exibidas no…”
What makes Big Data, Big Data? Exploring the ontological characteristics of 26 datasets (2016, background): “…in 2014, Facebook was processing 10 billion messages, 4.5 billion ‘Like’ actions, and 350 million photo uploads per day (Marr, 2014), and they were constantly reﬁning and tweaking their underlying algorithms and terms and conditions, changing what and how data were generated (Bucher, 2012).”
Algorithmic IF … THEN rules and the conditions and consequences of power (2017, background): “…the challenge in accomplishing such a task is made complicated by proprietary interest in keeping algorithms enclosed, the technical dif ﬁ culties involved in making an algorithm transparent (Slavin, 2011) or the problems involved in removing algorithms from their black boxes (Bucher, 2012).”
Understanding User Beliefs About Algorithmic Curation in the Facebook News Feed (2015, background): “…on their News Feeds; they might also cope in other ways, such as forming a routine to visit friends’ Timelines directly to stay in touch: As producers, users can try to create posts that other users ﬁnd more engaging so their posts get more attention and avoid the “threat of invisibility” [6].”
#Gamergate and The Fappening: How Reddit’s algorithm, governance, and culture support toxic technocultures (2017, methodology): “In this article, I examine how the platform and algorithmic politics (Bucher, 2012; Gillespie, 2010; Van Dijck, 2013) of Reddit.com provides fertile ground for these kinds of toxic spaces to emerge.”
Governance of algorithms: options and limitations (2015, background): “rankings (Döpfner, 2014; Epstein and Robertson, 2013) and Facebook’s News Feed on the news business (Bucher, 2012; Somaiya, 2014).”
The Digital Architectures of Social Media: Comparing Political Campaigning on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat in the 2016 U.S. Election (2018, background): “Algorithmic filtering refers to how developers prioritize the selection, sequence, and visibility of posts (Bucher, 2012).”
‘What are you feeling right now?’ communities of maternal feeling on Mumsnet (2016, background): “Participation in social media and online forums, therefore, is a mode of ethical self-formation, in which certain aspects of selfhood are presented and performed (Bucher, 2012; Sauter, 2014; van Dijck, 2013).”
We get the algorithms of our ground truths: Designing referential databases in digital image processing (2017, background): “of studies: the first series of studies presents algorithms as powerful value-laden actors (Beer, 2009; Bucher, 2012; Gillespie, 2014; Hallinan and Striphas, 2016; Introna and Nissenbaum, 2000; Introna and Wood, 2004; Kraemer et al., 2011; Kushner, 2013; Steiner, 2012); the”
Playing the visibility game: How digital influencers and algorithms negotiate influence on Instagram (2018, methodology): “As such, algorithms serve as disciplinary apparatuses that prescribe desirable forms of participation on social media (Bucher, 2012).”
Sharing the moment as small stories (2019, background): “…‘cultural and theoretical critiques of how the world itself is captured within code in terms of algorithmic potential’ (Dodge 2010: 15, cited in Bucher 2012: 1165), what is still lagging behind is micro-analytical attention to how users’ practices take up, harness or counter-act…”