Paolo Boldi, Corrado Monti, Massimo Santini, and Sebastiano Vigna.
Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, 2015.
Recommender systems usually rely on behavioral similarity, but trust and delegation also structure how people share taste. This project introduces Liquid FM, a music recommender based on viscous democracy, where users vote for experts whose preferences propagate through the network. By turning recommendation into a collective decision process, it experiments with new forms of democratic influence and accountability in algorithmic systems.