how the algorithm keeps you under control

To opt out, though, is to be excluded.

To them, the “culture industry” was a tool to both occupy our senses and influence our attitudes toward the world. Through the mass production of entertainment, the media-makers are able to dominate people’s leisure “from the time they leave the factory in the evening to the time they clock in again the next morning.” The flat, repetitive nature of... See more

As more and more of us continue to buy in, then, it’ll be harder and harder to avoid the algorithmic gaze and the way it shapes our communication.