Up close and personal: when the algorithm goes too far

The merging of personalisation and generation represents the ultimate optimisation for media production. Everybody satisfied, all of the time.

But such a simplistic optimisation overlooks the broader implications – those that differentiate entertainment from culture. They inspire a cascade of questions, such as how is human culture changed if we los

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Digital media has made it possible to live an even more intensely private life, inhabiting what Renee DiResta once called “bespoke realities.”