iflores12 's review for:

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

3.0

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Interesting enough writing to get 3 stars as an introduction to various facets of algorithms. But it's missing critical analysis of these things. Algorithms aren't the only things that exist within a capitalistic society – so do people. I get his frustrations, but the power structures and tension between capital and curators is very similar to capital and algorithms. There's also this naive nostalgia about taste and tastemaking of yesteryear.