The Burden of Choice : : Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture / / Jonathan Cohn.
The Burden of Choice examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Fundamentally concerned with how the recommendation has come to serve as a form of control that frames a contemporary American as...
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Cohn, Jonathan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Burden of Choice : Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture / Jonathan Cohn. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (234 p.) : 9 b-w images text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Data Fields of Dreams -- 1. A Brief History of Good Choices -- 2. Female Labor and Digital Media: Pattie Maes and the Birth of Recommendation Systems and Social Networking Technologies -- 3. Mapping the Stars: TiVo’s, Netflix’s, and Digg’s Digital Media Distribution and Talking Back to Algorithms -- 4. Love’s Labor’s Logged: The Weird Science of Matchmaking Systems and Its Parodies -- 5. The Mirror Phased: Embodying the Recommendation via Virtual Cosmetic Surgeries and Beautification Engines -- Conclusion: On Handling Toddlers and Structuring the Limits of Knowledge -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Burden of Choice examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Fundamentally concerned with how the recommendation has come to serve as a form of control that frames a contemporary American as heteronormative, white, and well off, this book asserts that the industries that use these automated recommendations tend to ignore and obscure all other identities in the service of making the type of affluence they are selling appear commonplace. Focusing on the period from the mid-1990s to approximately 2010 (while this technology was still novel), Jonathan Cohn argues that automated recommendations and algorithms are far from natural, neutral, or benevolent. Instead, they shape and are shaped by changing conceptions of gender, sexuality, race, and class. With its cultural studies and humanities-driven methodologies focused on close readings, historical research, and qualitative analysis, The Burden of Choice models a promising avenue for the study of algorithms and culture. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) Consumer behavior. Consumer profiling. Consumption (Economics). SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics, Law & Social Sciences 2019 ENG 9783110610130 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2019 9783110606485 ZDB-23-DSW Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110653526 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813597850 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813597850 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813597850.jpg |
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Cohn, Jonathan, Cohn, Jonathan, The Burden of Choice : Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Data Fields of Dreams -- 1. A Brief History of Good Choices -- 2. Female Labor and Digital Media: Pattie Maes and the Birth of Recommendation Systems and Social Networking Technologies -- 3. Mapping the Stars: TiVo’s, Netflix’s, and Digg’s Digital Media Distribution and Talking Back to Algorithms -- 4. Love’s Labor’s Logged: The Weird Science of Matchmaking Systems and Its Parodies -- 5. The Mirror Phased: Embodying the Recommendation via Virtual Cosmetic Surgeries and Beautification Engines -- Conclusion: On Handling Toddlers and Structuring the Limits of Knowledge -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Data Fields of Dreams -- 1. A Brief History of Good Choices -- 2. Female Labor and Digital Media: Pattie Maes and the Birth of Recommendation Systems and Social Networking Technologies -- 3. Mapping the Stars: TiVo’s, Netflix’s, and Digg’s Digital Media Distribution and Talking Back to Algorithms -- 4. Love’s Labor’s Logged: The Weird Science of Matchmaking Systems and Its Parodies -- 5. The Mirror Phased: Embodying the Recommendation via Virtual Cosmetic Surgeries and Beautification Engines -- Conclusion: On Handling Toddlers and Structuring the Limits of Knowledge -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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