title: Who Controls the Public Sphere in an Era of Algorithms: Case Studies
abstract: 1) Facebook Experiments with Nudging Users to the PollsFor the 2010 U.S. midterm elections, Facebook researchers and engineers wanted to know if an alteration to their algorithm could nudge users to the voting booths.They designed an experiment with two conditions.In the experiment, millions of U.S. Facebook users were presented with new, election-specific features: graphics in their News Feeds showing them their designated polling place, a button they could press to show their friends and famil