Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The force of algorithmic pressure is not theoretical. It’s not a gloomy dystopian future but, rather, a pervading force that is already influencing cultural consumers and creators. On the consumer side, the bombardment of recommendations can induce a kind of hypnosis that makes listening to, watching, or buying a product all but inevitable—whether
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
Direct, unfiltered exposure to said flumes—the torrent of porn, propaganda, and death threats, 99.9 percent of which were algorithmically generated and never actually seen by human eyes—was relegated to a combination of AIs and Third World eyeball farms, which was to say huge warehouses in hot places where people sat on benches or milled around gaz
... See moreNeal Stephenson • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Michelle Rose Joseph • No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms
a burgeoning boredom—as well as a sense of intrusion, that the influence of digital platforms was extending somewhere that it had not theretofore…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
the subject of digital technology and spaces focuses on what digital technology might do for us, this book explores what the same technology might do to us.
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
Want brash, garish advertising plastered all over the web? Reject ads personalization. Want relevant, informed advertising? Embrace ads personalization.