Algorithms of Resistance - The Everyday Fight against Platform Power

How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our lives. Algorithms are all around us, permeating more and more aspects of our daily lives. While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, Bonini and Treré begin by outlining their key theoretical framework of moral economies. This framework argues that algorithms exist on a continuum. At its two extremes are two competing moral economies: the user moral economy and the platform moral economy. From here,

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• Authors: Tiziano Bonini, Bonini Tiziano, Emiliano Trere
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2024
• EAN: 9780262547420
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54742-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Programming languages; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, algorithms and data structures, Information technology: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice