Tuning machines: an approach to exploring how Instagram's machine vision operates on and through digital media's participatory visual cultures.
The work of training machine vision systems is diffused into the participatory cultures of social media. As we use social media platforms to express ourselves we assemble databases and train algorithms; and these algorithms in turn shape our everyday cultural practices. In this article, we describe...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 20 - 46 |
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