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Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet

Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet

Striphas, Ted

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0231206682
ISBN13: 9780231206686
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Jun 6 2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Today, algorithms exercise outsize influence on cultural decision-making, shaping and even reshaping the concept of culture. How were automated, computational processes empowered to perform this work? What forces prompted the emergence of algorithmic culture?


Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet is a history of how culture and computation came to be entangled. From Cambridge, England to Cambridge, Massachusetts by way of medieval Baghdad, this book pinpoints the critical junctures at which algorithmic culture began to coalesce in language long before it materialized in the technological wizardry of Silicon Valley. Revising and extending the methodology of keywords, Ted Striphas examines changing concepts and definitions of culture, including the development of the field of cultural studies, and stresses the importance of language in the history of technology.

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