About Us
CP3 is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to studying the relationship between personalization algorithms and society. Our research focuses on the feedback loop between social media users and platform algorithms. We incorporate a variety of methods and perspectives that take into account both user agency and technological processes.
How do social media algorithms shape your worldview?
CP3 was formed in 2015 as an interdisciplinary reading group based at the University of Iowa’s Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. Over time, CP3 has evolved into a productive research group committed to true interdisciplinarity, guided by the belief that our work is strengthened by incorporating insights, theories, and methodologies from a variety of different academic disciplines.
News
Computer Science faculty member earns NSF CAREER Award
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Rishab Nithyanand, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, will build computational tools to assist regulatory agencies with data privacy enforcement.
The Latest Online Culture War Is Humans vs. Algorithms
Monday, April 29, 2024
Ryan Stoldt, assistant professor at Drake University, was featured in an article by Wired. Group chats might be ad-free and relatively controlled social environments, but they come with their own biases. “If you look at sociology, we've seen a lot of research that shows that people naturally seek out things that don't cause cognitive dissonance,” says Stoldt.
