Algorithmic accountability in scholarship: what we can learn from #DeleteAcademiaEdu
Jean-Christophe Plantin, Assistant Professor in Media & Communications at the LSE, explores the intersection of algorithms, academic research and platforms for scholarly publications. He argues that there is a need to develop a values-centred approach in the development of article-sharing platforms, with suitably designed algorithms. The networking and article-sharing platform academia.edu has been at the centre of a controversy in the academic […]
