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The introduction of the “feed” in modern social media has been controversial. At its core, “algorithmic curation is ultimately about power — about who controls what we see and how we see it.” As our lawmakers now discuss this question on Capitol Hill, most of the discussion is centered around how we can “fix” the feed. However, our political and te... See more

The implication is that if we are unhappy with recommendations, we can easily “zoom out” to find different perspectives. We can always “zoom in” elsewhere to find different content.

Serendipitous use of the internet is slowly going extinct as we replace link-hopping with the algorithmic-feed. Ranked results and recommendations have become the dominant mode of exploring information online.

Unexpected membership. Discovering an unexpected or unknown member in a known community of content.

Unexpected connection. Discovering an unexpected connection between known content across communities.

In this experiment, we break away from this paradigm, and present Wikigraph. While a “search engine” returns a ranked list of results, Wikigraph returns the most relevant sub-graph of pages. Such an application we term an “exploration engine.”

The history of technology and globalization are the expansion and connection of knowledge. All written knowledge, from the Rosetta Stone, to the Talmud, to the modern academic paper, are graph structure. Yet, 21st century digital media still imitates the linear scroll.

Unexpected community. Discovering a community containing known content not expected to be interrelated.

Unexpected degree. Discovering a known or unknown piece of content with an unexpectedly high degree.