Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
the fast growth that comes with adopting a recognizable template, whether for a physical space or purely digital content, gives way to the daily grind of keeping
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The former option is mercurial and driven by elite gatekeepers, a powerful group built up over a century of modern cultural industries, riddled with their own blind spots and biases including those of gender and race.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“essentially a huge dataset that quantifies and organizes all social media conversations about TV.” Their system enables them to monitor reactions to commercials and shows in real time.
Joel Gurin • Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation (Business Books)
Computation in the Expanded Field
worldcomputersculpture.gardenIn 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
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Exploring the relationship between media and society, it argues that the medium itself shapes human interactions and cultural structures, often overpowering content and leading to profound social consequences.
web.mit.eduSeeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves
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However, each of these flips into a network as people are able to add to the listings with their own photos, notes, and other forms of user-generated content.