A review by mmccombs
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

A book that put words and context to my overwhelming feelings of bleak anxiety whenever going on the internet over the past few years. I found this book accessible and mind blowing, though I do feel like it was very much an intro overview that could have gone deeper in some areas. Especially coming at this from a bookstagram perspective, I leave this book with many ideas about how to improve my connection with the reason I joined in the first place: building community and finding great books to read. How can I curate my feed to better represent my interests? How can I curate my posts to be more meaningful, rather than just throwing posts out there in a desperate attempt to gain likes? Could I leave the platform altogether to achieve something slower, something outside the algorithm? This is a book that truly made me step back and begin to reassess my own habits, while also thinking more broadly about our culture at large, and I had a great time thinking about those things!
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