Algorithmic Worldmaking The Rhetorical Craft of Networked Order

"An ambitious and imaginative research project that explores the impact of algorithms on cultural life. It is well done and compellingly written." -E. Johanna Hartelius, author of The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons

"Algorithmic Worldmaking is a data bridge between rhetoric's past and the algorithmic present, offering a compelling case for algorithms as agents of order. Rendered as rhetorical kosmoi, Johnson shows us how a digital syntax entraps users in deleterious patterns, platforms hate under the guise of open discourse, and encodes pathways toward algorithmic justice." -Atilla Hallsby is assistant professor of rhetorical studies researching secrecy and digital culture at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities