Jonathan Cohn

The Burden of Choice: Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Focusing on the period from the mid-1990s to approximately 2010, Jonathan Cohn argues that automated recommendations and algorithms are far from natural, neutral, or benevolent.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780813597812
• ISBN-10: 0813597811
• Artikelnr.: 54917162

Autorenporträt

JONATHAN COHN is an assistant professor at the University of Alberta in Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Data Fields of Dreams
1          A Brief History of Good Choices
2          Female Labor and Digital Media:  Pattie Maes and the Birth of
Recommendation Systems and Social Networking Technologies 
3          Mapping the Stars:  TiVo, Netflix, and Digg's Digital Media
Distribution and Talking Back to Algorithms
4          Love's Labor's Logged: The Weird Science of Matchmaking Systems
and Its Parodies
5          The Mirror Phased: Virtual Cosmetic Surgeries, Beautification
Engines, and the Embodied Recommendation
Conclusion:  On Handling Toddlers and Structuring the Limits of Knowledge
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index