This thematic issue invited submissions that address the opportunities and controversies related to algorithmic influence in a digital society. A total of 11 articles address how the use of algorithms has changed communication in various contexts, and cover topics such as personalized marketing communication, self-tracking for health, political microtargeting, news recommenders, social media algorithms, and urban experiences. The articles also include a wide variety of methods such as surveys, experiments, expert interviews, computational methods, and theoretical work developing frameworks and typologies. They are all united by one central question: How have algorithms and artificial intelligence changed communication, for both senders and receivers? We believe that the collection of topics and methods provide new insights into the different perspectives regarding algorithmic-driven communication—highlighting both the opportunities and challenges—and advance the literature with new findings, frameworks, and typologies.

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算法系统如何改变数字社会中的通信

本专题邀请了有关数字社会中与算法影响相关的机会和争议的投稿。共有 11 篇文章探讨了算法的使用如何改变了各种环境下的沟通方式，涵盖了个性化营销沟通、健康自我跟踪、政治微目标定位、新闻推荐、社交媒体算法和城市体验等主题。这些文章还包括各种方法，例如调查、实验、专家访谈、计算方法以及开发框架和类型学的理论工作。他们都被一个核心问题联合起来：算法和人工智能如何改变了沟通，对于发送者和接收者？我们相信，这些主题和方法的集合为算法驱动的通信的不同观点提供了新的见解——突出了机遇和挑战——并以新的发现、框架和类型学推进了文献。