Algorithm awareness: Why user awareness is critical for personal privacy in the adoption of algorithmic platforms?

Understanding how algorithms shape users’ online experiences is a prerequisite to developing an effective algorithm design. Due to the rapid algorithmification of platforms, it is timely to examine users’ awareness of algorithms on online platforms because these algorithms can shape everyday decisions and interactions through mediating, gatekeeping, and structuring user interactions. Focusing on the role of algorithm awareness (AA) in the privacy calculus process, we investigate users’ intention to disclose personal information when using a platform with personalized algorithms. By conceptualizing AA with a range of theoretical and behavioral variables, we examine how users’ self-efficacy affects their privacy concerns when they adopt, consume, and interact with such platforms. The findings show that AA leads users to envisage, understand, and interact with algorithms depending on their understanding of the control of the information flow embedded within them. The awareness that users have regarding algorithms influences the trust of algorithmic processes and the way users evaluate privacy concerns and self-disclosures. The cognitive user processes of AA provide conceptual frameworks for algorithm design and a practical guideline for the design of personalized algorithms

The Role of Vidura Chatbot in the Diffusion of KnowCOVID-19 Gateway

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global emergency. Clinicians and medical researchers are suddenly thrown into a situation where they need to keep up with the latest and best evidence for decision-making at work in order to save lives and develop solutions for COVID-19 treatments and preventions. However, a challenge is the overwhelming numbers of online publications with a wide range of quality. We explain a science gateway platform designed to help users to filter the overwhelming amount of literature efficiently (with speed) and effectively (with quality), to find answers to their scientific questions. It is equipped with a chatbot to assist users to overcome infodemic, low usability, and high learning curve. We argue that human-machine communication via a chatbot play a critical role in enabling the diffusion of innovations

The Nudging Effect of Accuracy Alerts for Combating the Diffusion of Misinformation: Algorithmic News Sources, Trust in Algorithms, and Users’ Discernment of Fake News

Research has revealed that the diffusion of misinformation online can be attributed to inaccuracies in human cognitive reasoning. We examine the nudging effect of Accuracy Alerts on users’ ability to discern misinformation and how their trust moderates this effect. The results from a 2 (accuracy nudge: with nudge vs. no nudge) × 2 (news source type: algorithmic news vs. legacy non-algorithmic news) experiment showed significant main and interaction effects indicating that an algorithmic source effect is present in the process of nudge acceptance. Misinformation sharing intention was largely lower for legacy non-algorithmic news than algorithmic news, but there was a greater decrease in algorithmic news when nudging was employed

Positive impacts of social media at work: job satisfaction, job calling, and Facebook use among co-workers

The number of Facebook users grew rapidly since its conception.Within today’s workplace, employees are increasingly connecting with each other on Facebook for interpersonal reasons.Due to sensational reports by media outlets of inappropriate social media use, many organizations are taking extreme measures about how their employees who utilize Facebook to connect with colleagues.Contrary to the negative assumptions, McAfee [1] states that social media within the workplace can promote positive dynamics. The present study uses McAfee’s argument to examine if a positive connection exists between colleagues who use Facebook to connect with each other. An online survey with questions involving Facebook use with co-workers, job satisfaction, and perceived job calling was completed by employees (N=70) at two high-tech companies in Northern California, USA.Results revealed that job satisfaction is positively correlated with intensity of Facebook use among co-workers. Furthermore, feeling called to one’s line of work was statistically significantly higher for the group of employees who spent the most amount of time interacting on Facebook with their co-workers than the group that spent the least amount of time.These results suggest that companies could begin to explore the positive benefits of social media use within the workplace

Meta Organizational Influences on Scientific IT Infrastructure Development

By taking an organizational communication approach to examine the meta influences on scientific IT infrastructure development, a preliminary analysis reveals that existing practices in a field with the Internet and computer technologies, the agenda of the funding agency, and the competing theories and methodologies held by participating scientists and groups are three such meta organizational influences. Instead of presenting key findings in the form of statements, the student author instead raises meta questions to be asked as we develop and design large-scale scientific IT infrastructure in the early 21st century

Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Voices in Higher Education: Virtual Colloquium

SMU Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute (DCII)\u27s AsianStudies & Asian American Experiences Research Cluster Presents the Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Voices in Higher Education: Virtual Colloquium. Research Talks: Talking Back to Anti-Asian Racism and Microaggressions: Lessons Learned from Working with Pan-Asian Nonprofit Organizations and Immigrant Women Faculty Dr. Yea-Wen Chen, Associate Professor Director, Institute for Dialogue and Social Justice, San Diego State University The Organizational Communication and Readiness Matrix: How Communication Technologies Help Support a Group of Asian Faculty During the Rise of Anti-AAPI Hate Crimes Dr. Kerk F. Kee, Associate Professor of Media and Communication, Texas Tech University Exploring Needs and Experiences of AAPI Faculty, Staff, and Students on US College Campuses: Leadership Communication, Sense of Belonging, & Campus Member Wellbeing Dr. Piyawan Charoensap-Kelly, Assistant Professor, Corporate Communication & Public Affairs, Southern Methodist Universityhttps://scholar.smu.edu/dcii_smuappi_recordings/1000/thumbnail.jp

Positive Impacts of Social Media at Work: Job Satisfaction, Job Calling, and Facebook Use among Co-Workers

The number of Facebook users grew rapidly since its conception. Within today’s workplace, employees are increasingly connecting with each other on Facebook for interpersonal reasons. Due to sensational reports by media outlets of inappropriate social media use, many organizations are taking extreme measures about how their employees who utilize Facebook to connect with colleagues. Contrary to the negative assumptions, McAfee [1] states that social media within the workplace can promote positive dynamics. The present study uses McAfee’s argument to examine if a positive connection exists between colleagues who use Facebook to connect with each other. An online survey with questions involving Facebook use with co-workers, job satisfaction, and perceived job calling was completed by employees (N=70) at two high-tech companies in Northern California, USA. Results revealed that job satisfaction is positively correlated with intensity of Facebook use among co-workers. Furthermore, feeling called to one’s line of work was statistically significantly higher for the group of employees who spent the most amount of time interacting on Facebook with their co-workers than the group that spent the least amount of time. These results suggest that companies could begin to explore the positive benefits of social media use within the workplace