Brown Bag Lecture Series: Professor Willie Gin, POLS
Stevenson 3900
12:00 pm
– 1:00 pm
"Privileged Personalization: Who Controls Their Feed?", Professor Willie Gin, POLS
Willie Gin’s research has found that for some, TikTok’s ‘For You’ page personalizes more quickly than others. For example, Christian and party identities like Republican and Democrat personalize more quickly than LGBTQ+ identities. Professor Gin and student researchers are seeking to understand why the algorithm has this discrepancy and are in the process of testing possible causes of why some identities/occupations personalize or don’t personalize on TikTok’s algorithm.
The Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts Brown Bag Series is always free, open to faculty, staff, students, and the public, and provides a congenial interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of recent research by the HSSA faculty. See the information below for upcoming brown bag talks.