Redesigning Social Media: Limiting Self-Radicalisation caused by YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm

The Platform, the Creator, and the Viewer: An analysis of values and emotions on the impacts of parasocial phenomena on YouTube

When discussing media, parasocial phenomena is mentioned. Audience members naturally partake in parasocial phenomena when consuming media and empathizing with media figures. Viewers who form relationships with a media figure despite never meeting them are said to be in a parasocial relationship. On YouTube, examples of parasocial interactions...

Towards a Social Web based solution to bootstrap new domains in cross-domain recommendations

Most recommender systems recommend items from a single domain. However, usually users’ preferences span across multiple domains. Cross-domain recommender systems can successfully recommend items in multiple domains when there is knowledge about the user’s preferences for items in at least one of the domains and when there is knowledge about...

A non-centralized approach to Video on Demand on mobile devices

As mobile Internet traffic continues to consistently gain on desktop traffic in terms of volume, a desire for a mobile version of Tribler was expressed by the Client: Dr. Ir. Johan Pouwelse. This desire was formulated into a Bachelor project, which will be executed within a period of 11 weeks. The project is centered around answering the...