Algorithmic Recommendations and Synaptic Functions

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May 21, 2018 - 7:54pm

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In this article, Nick Seaver builds upon Marshal Sahlins' (1978) notion of the "synaptic function" of demographic marketing by considering the implications of a new algorithmic marketing technology: collaborative filtering. Seaver discusses how the developers of these algorithm-based recommenders are performatively rearticulating relationships between people and things in ways that complicate classic conceptions of collectivity, individuality, and the networks of correspondences between them.

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English

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Nick Seaver, "Algorithmic Recommendations and Synaptic Functions", contributed by , STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 21 May 2018, accessed 29 March 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/algorithmic-recommendations-and-synaptic-functions