Corrado Monti

Liquid FM: Recommending Music through Viscous Democracy

Paolo Boldi, Corrado Monti, Massimo Santini, and Sebastiano Vigna.

Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, 2015.

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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.

Posted on Thu 01 January 2015