This book brings together the work of historians and sociologists with perspectives from media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and information studies to address the origins, practices, and possible futures of contemporary machine learning. From its foundations…
1. What are algorithmic cultures? / Jonathan Roberge and Robert Seyfert -- 2. The algorithmic choreography of the impressionable subject / Lucas D. Introna -- 3. #trendingistrending : when algorithms become culture / Tarleton Gillespie -- 4. Shaping consumers' online voices : al…
This book provides in-depth and wide-ranging analyses of the emergence, and subsequent ubiquity, of algorithms in diverse realms of social life. The plurality of Algorithmic Cultures emphasizes: 1) algorithms' increasing importance in the formation of new epistemic and organizat…