2 papers
cs.SI2026
Reranking Social Media Feeds: A Practical Guide for Field Experiments
Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Saveski, Chenyan Jia +3
Social media plays a central role in shaping public opinion and behavior, yet performing experiments on these platforms and, in particular, on feed algorithms is becoming increasin…
cs.CY2025
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Saveski, Chenyan Jia +3
Today, social media platforms hold sole power to study the effects of feed ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants' feeds in real-t…