Hi all - inspired by the excellent Clive Thompson article in today's NYT on Netflix & collaborative filtering (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html ), I want to bring a research project off the backburner about collaborative filtering and taste cultures. Does anyone know of any research from a more cultural/social perspective on CF? The research that's I've found via searches is all about algorithms - since I don't want to build a system, but rather study their use & significance, those articles are less than useful (and utterly incomprehensible to my humanistic mind). I'd appreciate any references about recommendation systems and collectivized taste that you know of. And on a related note, if other people are interested in the topic, might we want to put together a panel for IR 10.0? If so, contact me off-list. Thanks, -Jason -- Jason Mittell, Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture Chair of Film & Media Culture Department Middlebury College 208 Axinn Center at Starr Library Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-3435 / fax: (802) 443-2805 Homepage: http://seguecommunity.middlebury.edu/sites/jmittell Blog: http://justtv.wordpress.com