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Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
by Kyle Chayka
With our online lives increasingly being dictated by algorithms, recommendations and suggested content, are we losing ourselves? Is culture being flattened into passive content? And when we do find something to truly engage with, are we able to slow down and take the time required to digest and understand it?
These are the kinds of questions brought up in Filterworld, and while the commentary may seem obvious at times, the question remains: can society truly take the steps to protect themselves from algorithmic supremacy, or are we all doomed to watch in horror as everything from music to coffee shops are slowly filtered into homogeneity?
*Note: Kyle Chayka's book is a conversation starter, an opinion piece, and does not use in-depth analysis or academic research. Hopefully that book is being written right now.
These are the kinds of questions brought up in Filterworld, and while the commentary may seem obvious at times, the question remains: can society truly take the steps to protect themselves from algorithmic supremacy, or are we all doomed to watch in horror as everything from music to coffee shops are slowly filtered into homogeneity?
*Note: Kyle Chayka's book is a conversation starter, an opinion piece, and does not use in-depth analysis or academic research. Hopefully that book is being written right now.