The Loss of Agency in the Age of Algorithms
Algorithms are everywhere. They decide what news we should see, what friends we should keep up with and even what shows we watch. Their pervasiveness shouldn’t really be a surprise. After all, their promise is an attractive one. You are only going to see the stuff you like. The Internet is going to cater to you.
Algorithms are the Internet’s easy button, giving you just the stuff you want and none of the stuff you don’t. They’re meant to enable us to get the most out of the web, but do they?
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