Living with Algorithms
A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it's like to live in a datafied world.We live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and identities into data others can analyze and monetize. Algorithms are key to this process, surveilling our most mun...
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2023
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| description | A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it's like to live in a datafied world.We live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and identities into data others can analyze and monetize. Algorithms are key to this process, surveilling our most mundane practices, and to many, their control over our lives seems absolute. In Living with Algorithms, Ignacio Siles critically challenges this view by surveying user dynamics in the global south across three algorithmic platforms—Netflix, Spotify, and TikTok—and finds, surprisingly, a more balanced relationship. Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that privileges the user over the corporate, Siles examines the personal relationships that have formed between users and algorithms as Latin Americans have integrated these systems into the structures of everyday life, enacted them ritually, participated in public with and through them, and thwarted them. Sometimes users follow algorithms, Siles finds, and sometimes users resist them. At times, users do both. Agency lies in the navigation of the spaces in-between. By analyzing what we do with algorithms rather than what algorithms do to us, Living with Algorithms clarifies the debate over the future of datafication and whether we have a say in its development. Concentrating on an understudied region of the global south, the book provides a new perspective on the commonalities and differences among users within a global ecology of technologies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1115872024-04-04T19:18:39Z Living with Algorithms Siles, Ignacio Algorithms Agency Audiences Central America Culture Datafication Domestication Latin America Media Platforms Platformization Users. thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it's like to live in a datafied world.We live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and identities into data others can analyze and monetize. Algorithms are key to this process, surveilling our most mundane practices, and to many, their control over our lives seems absolute. In Living with Algorithms, Ignacio Siles critically challenges this view by surveying user dynamics in the global south across three algorithmic platforms—Netflix, Spotify, and TikTok—and finds, surprisingly, a more balanced relationship. Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that privileges the user over the corporate, Siles examines the personal relationships that have formed between users and algorithms as Latin Americans have integrated these systems into the structures of everyday life, enacted them ritually, participated in public with and through them, and thwarted them. Sometimes users follow algorithms, Siles finds, and sometimes users resist them. At times, users do both. Agency lies in the navigation of the spaces in-between. By analyzing what we do with algorithms rather than what algorithms do to us, Living with Algorithms clarifies the debate over the future of datafication and whether we have a say in its development. Concentrating on an understudied region of the global south, the book provides a new perspective on the commonalities and differences among users within a global ecology of technologies. 2023-07-31T10:54:11Z 2023-07-31T10:54:11Z 2023 book ONIX_20230731_9780262374200_21 9780262374200 9780262545426 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/111587 eng image/jpeg n/a https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14966.001.0001 The MIT Press The MIT Press 10.7551/mitpress/14966.001.0001 10.7551/mitpress/14966.001.0001 ae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d 9780262374200 9780262545426 The MIT Press 234 Cambridge open access |
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