Melanie M. Sidwell

"Am I Never Going to Be Free of All This Crap?" Upsetting Encounters With Algorithmically Curated Content About Ex-Partners

Every day on social media, people see streams of content curated by algorithms that leverage their relationships, preferences, and identities. However, algorithms can oversimplify the complexity of people's social contexts. Consequently, algorithms can present content to people in ways that are insensitive to their ci…