Making It Personal - Algorithmic Personalization, Identity, and Everyday Life

Making it Personal offers a thoughtful analysis and up-to-date contextualization of the issues around of algorithmic personalization, bridging the gap between algorithmic intervention and individual user perception, experience, and negotiation.

List of contents

• Introduction: Making it Personal


• Chapter Two: The Drive to Personalize


• Chapter Three: Me, Myself, and the Algorithm


• Chapter Four: Hiding Your "Scuzzy Bits"


• Chapter Five: Autoposting the Self into Existence


• Chapter Six: Validating the Self Through Google


• Conclusion: Removing 'the Personal' from Personalization


• Bibliography


• Appendix


• Endnotes

About the author

Tanya Kant is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies (Digital Media) at the University of Sussex, UK. She is Co-Managing Editor of the open access, multimedia publishing platform REFRAME.

Summary

Making it Personal offers a thoughtful analysis and up-to-date contextualization of the issues around of algorithmic personalization, bridging the gap between algorithmic intervention and individual user perception, experience, and negotiation.

Additional text

Making it Personal eloquently brings into focus the murky world of personalization algorithms and data tracking in order to interrogate the complex ways users understand and negotiate these systems. It usefully moves us beyond discussions of privacy, surveillance, and authenticity to skillfully interrogate what it really means to be subject to these algorithmic logics.

Product details

• Authors: Tanya Kant, Tanya (Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studie Kant, Tanya (Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies (Digital Media) Kant, Kant Tanya
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780190905095
• ISBN: 978-0-19-090509-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Hardware; Graphical & digital media applications, Graphical and digital media applications, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Graphics Tools