AUTHOR=Hoang Lê Nguyên 

TITLE=Science Communication Desperately Needs More Aligned Recommendation Algorithms

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Communication

VOLUME=5

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2020.598454

DOI=10.3389/fcomm.2020.598454

ISSN=2297-900X

ABSTRACT=<p>With 1 billion watch-time hours per day, YouTube now plays a major role in communication. Unfortunately, a large amount of misinformation is produced and widely shared on this platform (Donzelli et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">2018</xref>; Allgaier, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">2019</xref>; Loeb et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B26">2019</xref>). In this paper, after providing a brief overview of the creation of science content on YouTube, we particularly emphasize the importance of YouTube's automated recommendations. We then discuss the main challenges of making such recommendations aligned with quality science communication.</p>