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The Latest Online Culture War Is Humans vs. Algorithms
At the same time, awareness of the potential downsides of this techno-dictatorial approach has never been higher. The US Congress recently probed whether social media algorithms are threatening the well-being of children, and new scholarship and books have focused fresh attention on the broad cultural consequences of letting algorithms curate our feeds. I do think it reifies a lot of our cultural tastes in a way that at least I find concerning, says Ryan Stoldt, an assistant professor at Drake University and member of the University of Iowas Algorithms and Culture Research Group.
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