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cs.SI2025
Studying Behavioral Addiction by Combining Surveys and Digital Traces: A Case Study of TikTok
Cai Yang, Sepehr Mousavi, Abhisek Dash +2
Opaque algorithms disseminate and mediate the content that users consume on online social media platforms. This algorithmic mediation serves users with contents of their liking, on…
cs.SI2024
TikTok and the Art of Personalization: Investigating Exploration and Exploitation on Social Media Feeds
Karan Vombatkere, Sepehr Mousavi, Savvas Zannettou +2
Recommendation algorithms for social media feeds often function as black boxes from the perspective of users. We aim to detect whether social media feed recommendations are persona…