Algorithmic Culture

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Algorithmic Culture Trending Topics

3. What things do social networks recommend to you?

2. Do you know how algorithms work? have you heard of them before?

1. What do you like to see on the internet?

Answer

• Algorithmic culture is the historical process through which computational processes are used to organise human culture.

• Ted Striphas argues that over the last 30 years human beings have been delegating the work of culture increasingly to computational processes.

• Cultures are, in some fundamental ways, systems of judgment and decision making.

What is Algorithmic Culture?

In simple words

“What one sees in Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix and many others, is the enfolding of human thought, conduct, organization and expression into the logic of big data and large-scale computation, a move that alters how the category culture has long been practiced.

Refers to the ways in which the logic of big data and large scale computation (including algorithms) alters they culture is practiced, experienced and understood.

2. Do you think there is a 100% reliable source to be informed?

3.Have you ever configured your social networks and pages to avoid the algorithm?

The algorithm in our lives

1. What site do you regularly see news from? What are the types of news that you usually find?

Algorism

Culture

Crowd

Data

Information

Privacy

Setting

Expression

Vocabulary

THE GOOD THINGS

speaking practice

THE BAD THINGS

In pairs, discuss the benefits and the harmful things of algorithms in social networks.

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