{"product_id":"algorithms-of-resistance-isbn-9780262547420","title":"Algorithms of Resistance","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our lives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlgorithms 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, \u003ci\u003eAlgorithms of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e shows how people can resist algorithms across a variety of domains. Drawing from rich ethnographic materials and perspectives from both the Global North and South, authors Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré explore how people appropriate and reconfigure algorithms to pursue their objectives in three domains of everyday life: gig work, cultural industries, and politics. They reveal how forms of algorithmic agency and resistance are endemic and mundane and how the platform society is a contested battleground of contrasting forces. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBonini 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, \u003ci\u003eAlgorithms of Resistance \u003c\/i\u003echronicles the various inventive ways that individuals can work to achieve agency and resist the ubiquitous power of algorithms. Casting a wide net with a diverse range of case studies, Bonini and Treré reveal the moral imperative for all of us—from delivery drivers to artists to social movements—to resist algorithms.CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION 1\u003cbr\u003e 1 LIVING WITH ALGORITHMS: POWER, AGENCY, RESISTANCE 13\u003cbr\u003e 2 THE MORAL ECONOMY OF ALGORITHMIC AGENCY 29\u003cbr\u003e 3 GAMING THE BOSS 59\u003cbr\u003e 4 GAMING CULTURE 107\u003cbr\u003e 5 GAMING POLITICS 131\u003cbr\u003e 6 FRONTIERS OF RESISTANCE IN THE AUTOMATED SOCIETY 155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX: RESEARCH METHODS 179\u003cbr\u003e NOTES 189\u003cbr\u003e INDEX 227“Bonini and Treré’s superb analysis of how users struggle with algorithmic power is a wonderful guide to the processes dynamics that animate the platform ecosystem. Essential reading for anyone interested in the socio-technical processes of contemporary media!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—José van Dijck, Distinguished Professor of Media and Digital Societies, Utrecht University; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Connectivity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Platform Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A celebration of human agency and resilience in the face of an ever-more pervasive algorithmic culture.  Bonini and Treré analyze the many ways that resistance \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e possible!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—William Uricchio, Professor, Comparative Media Studies, MIT; coauthor of \u003ci\u003eCollective Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Based on rich field work, digital ethnography, and interviews in India, China, Mexico, Italy, and Spain, this book provides a deeply insightful exploration of how gig workers, creators, and activists tactically engage with platform algorithms.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Thomas Poell, Professor of Data, Culture \u0026amp; Institutions, University of Amsterdam; coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Platform Society\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePlatforms and Cultural Production\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eTiziano Bonini is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication in the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Siena in Italy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmiliano Treré is Reader in Data Agency and Media Ecologies at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHybrid Media Activism\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Outstanding Book Award of the ICA Interest Group “Activism, Communication and Social Justice.”","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303786369253,"sku":"NP9780262547420","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262547420.jpg?v=1767721217","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/algorithms-of-resistance-isbn-9780262547420","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}