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Hidden Influences: How Algorithmic Recommenders Shape Our Lives

Hidden Influences: How Algorithmic Recommenders Shape Our Lives

Belli, Luca

Paperback

General Computers

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 29, 2026

ISBN10: 1633434877
ISBN13: 9781633434875
Publisher: Manning Publications
Published: Dec 29 2026
Pages: 325
Weight: 0.85
Language: English
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You don't choose what you see on the internet. Algorithms choose for you. We spend 12 billion hours a day browsing the internet. And in the background, sophisticated recommender systems silently decide what appears on our feeds, what we click next, and what we think we want. These invisible algorithms direct our entertainment, news, shopping, friendships, dates--even our sense of identity.

Algorithmic recommender systems are some of the internet's most closely guarded secrets. This book pulls back the curtain, showing why they're so seductive and how they influence your beliefs, desires, and behavior. This book tells you how they work and gives you tools to reclaim your agency.

Dr Luca Belli, co-founder and former research lead for Twitter's Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency and Accountability team, has been on the front lines of how recommender systems work and impact society. In this book, he lays out who uses this powerful technology to shape our world, and exactly how they do it.

About the book

In a world drowning in content, recommendation engines are the gatekeepers. They actively influence culture, democracy, privacy, and how we see each other. If you care about what you read, see and believe--and why--you need to understand recommendation systems.

What's inside

- Where algorithms hide in streaming platforms, social apps, dating services, online stores, and news feeds

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