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The 1980s are often characterized as a period during which there was an abandonment of the merely receptive or passive role of the original television viewer. In its place, according to this version, emerged a more creative user of a far larger field of media resources, who was able to intervene purposively in the utilization of technological
... See moreJonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Any questioning or discrediting of what is currently the most efficient means of producing acquiescence and docility, of promoting self-interest as the raison d’être of all social activity, is rigorously marginalized.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
... See moreAlgorithms shape the flow of information and influence the narratives that users encounter. By tailoring content based on user preferences and engagement patterns, they not only reinforce existing beliefs but nudge users in sometimes terrifying directions. This selective exposure to information can reinforce biases and shape users' perceptions in
none who protested the production of these men as twenty-first century sex deviants, or the almost extralegal management of their behavior by a local news station.9
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
In guiding us into particular categories through soft coercion, the Netflix algorithm ends up defining our taste as only one fixed thing, made more rigid by every successive interaction…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
It’s a quality that algorithmic normalization still works against, and thus tends to be missing in the Filterworld era.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
objects can be algorithmically individualized.
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum • Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (The MIT Press)
Following Foucault, to become unilateral, it is necessary to become multilateral, but via a veiled, cryptic sort of multilateralism. To…
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Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
Beyond international affairs, the theory of American exceptionalism also has implications for a political theory of networks. In contrast to Lovink, we maintain that in recent decades the processes of globalization have mutated from a system of control housed in a relatively small number of power hubs to a system of control infused into the
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