Platforms Intervene
By Tarleton Gillespie. 2015
Social media platforms don’t just guide, distort, and facilitate social activity, they also delete some of it. They don’t just link users together, they also suspend them. They don’t just circulate our images and posts, they also algorithmically promote some over others. Platforms pick and choose.
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
- Fernando Diaz
- Emre Kıcıman
- Veronika Karnowski
- Sophie Bishop
- Till Keyling
- Anna Sophie Kümpel
- Alexandra Olteanu
- Hamed Zamani
Citations in the corpus
- Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “The behaviors we observe in online social platforms are partially determined by platform capabilities, which are engineered toward certain goals (Van Dijck, 2013a; Tufekci, 2014; Gillespie, 2015; Salganik, 2017).”
- Anxiety, panic and self-optimization (2018, background): “However, although YouTube does not produce content, it does actively mobilize its algorithms to manipulate content creators towards cultural outputs that gain the attention of desirable audience segments and demographics (Gillespie, 2015).”
- News Sharing in Social Media: A Review of Current Research on News Sharing Users, Content, and Networks (2015, background): “As Gillespie (2015) points out, social media platforms “have distinct consequences for what users are able to do, and in fact do,” thus shaping social dynamics and discursive structures.”