Seeing like an infrastructure: avidity and difference in algorithmic recommendation.

As the influence of algorithmic systems has grown, critics have come to appreciate that algorithms are not autonomous technical forces, but rather heterogeneous sociotechnical systems. The people who build and maintain these infrastructures play integral roles in their functioning: in the tight and...

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Published in:	Cultural Studies Vol. 35; no. 4/5; pp. 771 - 792
Main Author:	Seaver, Nick
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Sep2021
Subjects:	Algorithms Recommender systems Music fans Computer software development Social theory Ethnographic analysis Cultural studies
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost