How Algorithms Work
Algorithms look at your likes and clicks to learn what you enjoy.
What is user activity?
Companies want users to spend more of this on their apps.
What is time?
Seeing mostly opinions similar to yours creates this online “bubble.”
What is an echo chamber?
This popular app uses algorithms to recommend short videos.
This popular app uses algorithms to recommend short videos.
This is content chosen specially for you based on what you watch.
What is personalized content?
More engagement helps companies earn money from these.
What are advertisements (ads)?
Algorithms can make people’s opinions more strongly divided, called this.
What is polarization?
Suggested videos on this platform appear after you watch one.
What is YouTube?
Algorithms try to keep you doing this on apps for as long as possible.
What is scrolling or staying online?
Algorithms try to show content you are most likely to do this with.
What is interact or engage?
Watching many recommended videos can make people spend too much of this online.
What is time?
Music apps recommend new songs using algorithms like this service.
What is Spotify?
This system decides what posts appear first in your feed.
What is an algorithm?
Platforms design feeds to feel more like this kind of experience.
What is a personalized experience?
When people only see one side of an issue, they may miss these.
What are different perspectives?
Algorithms help decide which posts you see on this photo-sharing app.
What is Instagram?
Videos suggested after you finish one are called this.
What are recommendations?
Algorithms help apps feel more interesting or this word.
What is entertaining?
Algorithms can influence how people think without them noticing, called this type of influence.
What is indirect or hidden influence?
When technology learns patterns from data, it is called this.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?