Interesting article, Nick. I have added it to my Bundlr on The Social Life of Big Data and Algorithms, which some of you may be interested in. Here's the link <http://bundlr.com/b/the-social-life-of-algorithms>. Cheers Deborah On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Nick Seaver <nseaver@uci.edu> wrote:

Hi all,

Apologies for the self-promotion, but I just put out a piece on Netflix, algorithms, and cultural engineering, which I thought might be of interest to folks here. (Medium's reading-time algorithm suggests that it is a #longread.)

https://medium.com/anthropology-and-algorithms/d9f5bae87812

Best, Nick

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