mckaylasmith 's review for:

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

4.0

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A relevant read. Not the most gripping and a bit long winded at times, but an important dialog about the lasting impacts of social media and algorithms on our culture. 

“Consumption without taste is just undiluted accelerated capitalism. There are two forces forming our taste [independent pursuit of what we individually enjoy] & [our awareness of what it appears most other people like, the dominant mainstream]"

“Corrupt personalization is the process by which your attention is drawn to interests that are not your own,” Sandvig wrote. The recommendation system “serves a commercial interest that is often at odds with our interests.”

“In passively consuming what I was interested in, had I given up my agency to figure out what was truly meaningful to me?”