The burden of choice : recommendations, subversion, and algorithmic culture /

The Burden of Choice examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Fundamentally concerned with how the recommendation has come to serve as a form of control that frames a contemporary American as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cohn, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Consumer behavior.
Consumer profiling.
Consumption (Economics)
Consommateurs > Comportement.
Profil des consommateurs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Consumer behavior
Consumer profiling
Verbrauch
Algorithmus
Subversion
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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's, Netflix's, 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: Embodying the Recommendation via Virtual Cosmetic Surgeries and Beautification Engines
  • Conclusion: On Handling Toddlers and Structuring the Limits of Knowledge
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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