“So the only thing we can do is to continue to demand that these services provide what we think we need, the 'we' being both individual and collective, and keep paying attention to the way they have structural problems in doing so. Whether that's algorithm or editorial acumen or yellow journalism, th…”— Tarleton Gillespie, niemanlab.orgTagged: Algorithms, Insights, Publishing, The internet
“The funny thing about clickbait as an idea is it's basically shorthand for: People really wanted to read this. Writing a really juicy headline to get people to read it, whether you got the substance or not, is not new to BuzzFeed and Upworthy. Is that gaming the algorithm? Was the algorithm of the p…”— Tarleton Gillespie, niemanlab.orgTagged: Algorithms, Buzzfeed, Clickbait, Insights, The internet
“One of the things I found really interesting about Twitter Trends is that they'll weight tweets or hashtags that appear across different clusters of people that aren't connected to each other on Twitter higher than a lot of activity that happens in a densely connected cluster of people. You can imag…”— Tarleton Gillespie, niemanlab.orgTagged: Algorithms, Facebook, The internet, Twitter
“It's in some ways a very old problem. NBC has to decide what's acceptable at 8 p.m. And they do that within some guidance of what the FCC says, but mostly they're working within those barriers, and deciding what they think their audience will accept, what they think their moral compass is, what thei…”— Tarleton Gillespie, niemanlab.orgTagged: Algorithms, Facebook, The internet