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Living with algorithms : agency and user culture in Costa Rica / Ignacio Siles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siles, Ignacio, author.
- Series:
- Information Society Series
- The information society series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artificial intelligence--Social aspects--Costa Rica.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Algorithms--Social aspects--Costa Rica.
- Algorithms.
- Information society--Costa Rica.
- Information society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "How people in Costa Rica live with algorithms in their daily life"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Datafication
- Datafication and Algorithmic Power
- Enacting Algorithms in Daily Life
- Mutual Domestication
- Algorithmic Platforms in Latin America
- Why Costa Rica?
- Research Design
- Overview of the Book
- 2. Personalization
- Algorithmic Interpellation on Netflix
- The Personification of Spotify
- Building a Personal Relationship with TikTok's Algorithms
- Concluding Remarks
- 3. Integration
- Integrating Cultural Sources to Watch Netflix
- Integrating Cultured Capacities through Spotify's Recommendations
- Integrating Relations across Platforms through TikTok
- 4. Rituals
- Of Rituals and Recommendations on Netflix
- Affect, Rituals, and Playlists on Spotify
- Boredom and Personalization on TikTok
- 5. Conversion
- Conversion as Sharing Recommendations on Netflix
- Conversion as Public Intimacy on Spotify
- Conversion as Attachment through TikTok
- 6. Resistance
- Claiming Identity against Netflix's Biases
- Deconfiguring the Spotify User
- Revealing TikTok's Political Project
- 7. Mutual Domestication
- Recognizing the Purposes of Algorithmic Determinism
- Five Dynamics of Mutual Domestication
- Cyclicity
- Algorithms in Costa Rican Culture
- Algorithms as Costa Rican Culture
- The Multiplicity of Datafication
- Appendix: Research Design
- Study 1: Netflix (2017-2018)
- Study 2: Spotify (2018)
- Study 3: Netflix (2019-2020)
- Study 4: Spotify (2019-2020)
- Study 5: TikTok (2020)
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-37420-X
- 0-262-37419-6
- OCLC:
- 1346622455
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