Professor Rich Gazan presented Thanking the Algorithm: Discovering Prosocial Communities Through YouTube Music Recommendation Pathways at the 2026 Hawaiʻi International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), held January 5-9 in Lāhainā, Maui. In its 59th year, the HICSS conference is a gathering of researchers from diverse disciplines who study the social and technological aspects of information systems.
The paper was part of the Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack within the Digital and Social Media track, and attracted participants from a range of disciplines represented within Library & Information Science and the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Communication and Information Sciences, which Rich now chairs.
