Birds of a Feather Get Recommended Together: Algorithmic Homophily in YouTube’s Channel Recommendations in the United States and Germany
Algorithms and especially recommendation algorithms play an important role online, most notably on YouTube. Yet, little is known about the network communities that these algorithms form. We analyzed the channel recommendations on YouTube to map the communities that the social network is creating thr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Social Media + Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120969914 |