Dear AoIR community, I'm thrilled to share that my (first!) book, Critical Algorithmic Literacy: From Everyday Knowledge to Bottom-Up Governance (Oxford University Press) is now available for pre-order. It will be published in December. Here is the link and a 30% discount code if you’d like to order: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/critical-algorithmic-literacy-978019... Discount code: AUFLY30 Please share this announcement with your networks. I’d love to share/discuss this work through book talks and other events. Reach out if this is of interest! And hope to see many of you at AoIR next week! Description: Critical Algorithmic Literacy is the culmination of my longtime empirical and theoretical exploration of what it means to know algorithms and what such insight affords individuals, communities, and society. Through a trio of case studies of online communities, the book illustrates how critical algorithmic literacy both shapes and is shaped by membership in different social worlds. Rather than a value-neutral, universal skill set, it conceptualizes algorithmic literacy as relational, contextual, and socially situated. Critical Algorithmic Literacy challenges prevailing visions of algorithmic literacy that privilege technical mastery and are driven by progress narratives serving powerful interests. It reorients critical algorithmic literacy around the goal of just social transformation, positioning it as a foundation for bottom-up governance. The book contends that governance of algorithms at the institutional level requires recognition of algorithm expertise as diverse, contextual, and interwoven with negotiations of power. Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Ways of knowing algorithms 3. Situating algorithmic literacy: Practical knowledge in BreadTube’s visibility war 4. Platform epistemology: How Instagram shapes learning about algorithms in influencers’ community of practice 5. What’s “critical” about critical algorithmic literacy: The fat liberation movement on TikTok 6. Conclusion: Reclaiming the right to know otherwise All the best, Kelley -- Kelley Cotter, PhD she, her, hers Assistant Professor College of Information Sciences & Technology Pennsylvania State University kcotter@psu.edu<mailto:kcotter@psu.edu> | www.kelleycotter.com<http://www.kelleycotter.com>