Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0064932

Zusammenfassung

The internet today allows a large fraction of the world's population to communicate with each other with virtually no restrictions on connectivity. In contrast, in all traditional mass media (from the printing press to radio and tv), information has been technically constrained to flow through a sparse set of intermediaries (e.g., editorial rooms). Technically, these information bottlenecks usually consolidate larger quantities of information. On the internet, the flow of information is nowadays frequently structured by machine learning algorithms (e.g., recommender systems on social m...