Review: Kyle Chayka's Filterworld
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture a book by Kyle Chayka
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It is the most elusive, those free to move without notice, who rule.” The same is true in Filterworld for those who are willing to take up whichever content and aesthetics algorithms are prioritizing…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The advent of Filterworld has seen a breakdown in monoculture… culture is meant to be communal and requires a certain degree of consistency across audiences; without communality, it loses some of its essential impact.
— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka
The playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar described our “click-bait consciousness,” trained to interact with anything in the feed designed to be triggering. “The worship of algorithms is mutilating creative industries,” the television writer Cord Jefferson complained. “Culture is no longer made. It is simply curated from existing culture, refined, an
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