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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (234 p.) :; 9 b-w images |
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Table of Contents:
- 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