{"product_id":"living-with-algorithms-isbn-9780262545426","title":"Living with Algorithms","description":"\u003cb\u003eA nuanced account from a user perspective of what it’s like to live in a datafied world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and identities into data others can analyze and monetize. Algorithms are key to this process, surveilling our most mundane practices, and to many, their control over our lives seems absolute. In \u003ci\u003eLiving with Algorithms\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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, enacted them ritually, participated in public with and through them, and thwarted them. Sometimes users follow algorithms, Siles finds, and sometimes users resist them. At times, users do both. Agency lies in the navigation of the spaces in-between.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy analyzing what we do with algorithms rather than what algorithms do to us, \u003ci\u003eLiving with Algorithms \u003c\/i\u003eclarifies the debate over the future of datafication and whether we have a say in its development. Concentrating on an understudied region of the global south, the book provides a new perspective on the commonalities and differences among users within a global ecology of technologies.Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e1 Datafication 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Personalization 33\u003cbr\u003e3 Integration 63\u003cbr\u003e4 Rituals 89\u003cbr\u003e5 Conversation 115\u003cbr\u003e6 Resistance 141\u003cbr\u003e7 Mutual Domestication 169\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Research Design 185\u003cbr\u003eReferences 193\u003cbr\u003eIndex 219“\u003ci\u003eLiving with Algorithms\u003c\/i\u003e is much more than a study of algorithms in Costa Rica. Siles deftly demonstrates the invaluable role of Latin American media theory and practice for our understanding of contemporary technologies.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Heather A. Horst, Director of the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University; coauthor of \u003ci\u003eDigital Anthropology, Digital Ethnography and The Moral Economy of the Mobile Phone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Too often, critical studies of data and algorithms remain focused on the global north. \u003ci\u003eLiving with Algorithms\u003c\/i\u003e breaks out of this paradigm, providing a fascinating and subtle account of how people in Costa Rica use, imagine, and resist digital platforms.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Angèle Christin, Assistant Professor, Stanford University; author of \u003ci\u003eMetrics at Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIgnacio Siles is a professor of media and technology studies in the School of Communication at Universidad de Costa Rica. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Transnational History of the Internet in Central America: Networks, Integration, and Development\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNetworked Selves: Trajectories of Blogging in the United States and France\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304565756133,"sku":"NP9780262545426","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545426.jpg?v=1767731608","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/living-with-algorithms-isbn-9780262545426","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}