{"id":16810,"date":"2022-07-27T19:12:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=16810"},"modified":"2022-07-27T18:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T17:16:46","slug":"read-the-age-of-algorithmic-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/read-the-age-of-algorithmic-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When we talk about \u201cthe algorithm,\u201d we might be conflating recommender systems with online surveillance, monopolization, and the digital platforms\u2019 takeover of all of our leisure time\u2014in other words, with the entire extractive technology industry of the twenty-first century. Bucher told me that the idea of the algorithm is \u201ca proxy for technology, and people\u2019s relationships to the machine.\u201d It has become a metaphor for the ultimate digital Other, a representation of all of our uneasiness with online life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/infinite-scroll\/the-age-of-algorithmic-anxiety\">The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety <\/a> via <a href=\"&lt;a href=\">John Naughton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our idea of algorithm is mixed up with other types of manipulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we talk about \u201cthe algorithm,\u201d we might be conflating recommender systems with online surveillance, monopolization, and the digital platforms\u2019 takeover of all of our leisure time\u2014in other words, with the entire extractive technology industry of the twenty-first century. Bucher told me that the idea of the algorithm is \u201ca proxy for technology, and people\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnjohnston\/status\/1552356348532330497","https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@johnjohnston\/108720657043542663"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[660],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-micro","7":"kind-read","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"post-kind"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-4n8","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16811,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16810\/revisions\/16811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16810"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=16810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}