[Air-L] Research on collaborative filtering?
Jason Mittell
jmittell at middlebury.edu
Sun Nov 23 13:54:38 PST 2008
Hi all - inspired by the excellent Clive Thompson article in today's
NYT on Netflix & collaborative filtering (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html
), I want to bring a research project off the backburner about
collaborative filtering and taste cultures. Does anyone know of any
research from a more cultural/social perspective on CF? The research
that's I've found via searches is all about algorithms - since I don't
want to build a system, but rather study their use & significance,
those articles are less than useful (and utterly incomprehensible to
my humanistic mind). I'd appreciate any references about
recommendation systems and collectivized taste that you know of.
And on a related note, if other people are interested in the topic,
might we want to put together a panel for IR 10.0? If so, contact me
off-list.
Thanks,
-Jason
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Jason Mittell, Associate Professor of American Studies and Film &
Media Culture
Chair of Film & Media Culture Department
Middlebury College
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