Filter Bubbles

We present MRecuri (Music RECommender for filter bUbble diveRsIfication), a music recommendation technique to foster the diversity and novelty of recommendations. A preliminary evaluation over Last.fm listening data showed the potential of MRecuri to increase the diversity and novelty of recommendations compared with state-of-the-art techniques.

We devise FRediECH (a Friend RecommenDer for breakIng Echo CHambers), an echo chamber-aware friend recommendation approach that learns users and echo chamber representations from the shared content and past users’ and communities’ interactions.