Living with Algorithms: Agency and User Culture in Costa Rica Siles Ignacio
Living with Algorithms: Agency and User Culture in Costa Rica Siles Ignacio A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it's like to live in a datafied world.We live in a media-saturated…
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Living with Algorithms: Agency and User Culture in Costa Rica Siles Ignacio
A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it's like to live in a datafied world.We live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and identities into data others can analyze and monetize. In Living with Algorithms, Ignacio Siles critically challenges this view by surveying user dynamics in the global south across three algorithmic platforms--Netflix, Spotify, and TikTok--and finds, surprisingly, a more balanced relationship.Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that privileges the user over the corporate, Siles examines the personal relationships that have formed between users and algorithms as Latin Americans have integrated these systems into the structures of everyday life, Algorithms are key to this process, surveilling our most mundane practices, and to many, their control over our lives seems absolute.