Filterworld. Come gli algoritmi hanno appiattito la cultura

This is a perfect pick for a book club. It’s a sprawling look at the impacts of algorithmic supremacy, both through technology and society, that take the reader for an introspective journey into dissecting our tastes, emotions, and inescapable presence on the internet

The first few chapters are good, describing how recommendation algorithms have affected the production and consumption of media and physical spaces. A reoccurring example (very reoccurring) is the "hipster coffee shop" that's become common over the last decade. It has large windows, white or tile wa Leggi tutto

Okay, I’ll talk about the content first before I get to my real gripe with this book. Basically: algorithmic recommendations drive the platforms that control so much of our social and economic lives. So anyone who personally wants or professionally needs to gain an audience on those platforms is hea Leggi tutto

"Algorithms dictate the websites we find in Google Search results; the stories we see on our Facebook feeds; the songs that Spotify plays in never-ending streams; the people we see as potential matches on dating apps; the movies recommended by the Netflix home page; the personalized feed of videos p Leggi tutto

A must-read for anyone online consuming virtual content of any kind and all content creators with that very specific, tumultuous relationship with the dreaded algorithm. This has completely altered how I view the internet and social media as well as forced me to think critically about the reasons be Leggi tutto

wasnt “bad” by any means just personally found it trite + repetitive for the most part. granted i think i’ve maxed myself out on this topic so it’s a me thing, not really a fault of the book. also just found his personal notes so… grating for some reason? i cant even place why since i typically dont Leggi tutto

long-winded and underwhelming. felt like a lot of low-hanging-fruit critiques that didn’t add much of an interesting perspective on the topic.

i kept fighting boredom reading this, perhaps because a lot of this felt very obvious to me? Algorithms flatten culture by serving the least offensive, most sanitized version of content to the most amount of people — and the algorithms that control what we see and what we don’t are unregulated, priv Leggi tutto