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Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
online life in this whiter online world required him to become more anxiously attuned to the rules
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
“Corrupt personalization is the process by which your attention is drawn to interests that are not your own,” Sandvig wrote. The recommendation system “serves a commercial interest that is often at odds with our interests.”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
the bookstore was inhuman.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
crisis of taste,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Alan Jacobs • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
These phenomena aren’t matters of indifference or bad taste. This is what arises from our increasingly unnatural experience of community, of culture, of public life, of identity, of bodies in space.