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The Future of Authority: Platform Power

Museum 2.0

There have been huge user-protests of both YouTube and Digg for perceived bias in the "featured content" algorithms that vault some content to the top. These values may skew towards promoting content with the most popularity/views, the newest content, or content that is unique in some way.

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Sharing Power, Holding Expertise: The Future of Authority Revisited

Museum 2.0

There have been huge user-protests of both YouTube and Digg for perceived bias in the "featured content" algorithms that vault some content to the top. These values may skew towards promoting content with the most popularity/views, the newest content, or content that is unique in some way.