Measuring Online Feedback Loops
Journal: Authorea
Year: 2018

My research looks at the struggle between greater simplicity and greater complexity online conversations. I lay out two different feedback loops that shape online conversations, the Simplicity loop and the Complexity Loop. By online conversations, I am referring to the process by which people come together and decide what means what. Are GMOs good or bad? Is the president a sinner or a rogue? Was the film genius or mad? The first feedback loop, which I will call the Simplicity Loop has three par