Papers
Bridging Systems: Open Problems for Countering Destructive Divisiveness across Ranking, Recommenders, and Governance Knight First Amendment Institute · Published 26 Oct 2023 Bridging-Based Ranking: How Platform Recommendation Systems Might Reduce Division and Strengthen Democracy Belfer Center · Published 17 May 2022The following are a selection of papers by other people which are particularly relevant to the ideas of bridging and bridging-based ranking.
Algorithmic Diplomacy: Integrating Mediation Techniques into YouTube's Recommender System Emillie de Keulenaar · University of Amsterdam · Sep 2018 Designing Recommender Systems to Depolarize Jonathan Stray · First Monday · Published 2 May 2022 The Algorithmic Management of Polarization and Violence on Social Media Jonathan Stray, Ravi Iyer + Helena Puig Larrauri · Knight First Amendment Institute · Published 22 Aug 2023 Embedding Democratic Values into Social Media AIs via Societal Objective Functions Chenyan Jia, Michelle Lam, Minh Chau Mai, Jeff Hancock + Michael Bernstein · arXiv Simulating Social Media Using Large Language Models to Evaluate Alternative News Feed Algorithms Petter Törnberg, Diliara Valeeva, Justus Uitermark + Christopher Bail · arXiv