The decision-making algorithms embedded within online platforms are determining content shown to users. This personalization steers the dissemination of information, in contrast with the idea of a universal World Wide Web. Personalization thus generates a combinatorial explosion of different versions of the web, rendering each user’s experience distinct. This raises critical questions: what elements of a personalized web should be archived? How can the collected user journeys capture a representative picture of our times? Navigating personalization is essential to capture the contemporary web experience, yet it presents methodological and technical challenges. In this chapter, we identify key challenges in performing a representative sampling of personalization within online platforms.
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Chapter Title
Challenges in archiving the personalized web
Authors
Erwan Le Merrer, Camilla Penzo, Gilles Tredan, Lucas Verney
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2.10
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Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Book Title
Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age
Book Subtitle
Proceedings of the 5th international RESAW conference, Marseille, June 2023
Editors
Sophie Gebeil, Jean-Christophe Peyssard
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Number of Pages
362
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0412-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0413-2
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0414-9
Series Title
Proceedings e report
Series ISSN
2704-601X
Series E-ISSN
2704-5846