18 - David Beer's Power through the Algorithm
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In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have a chat about David Beer's article in New Media & Society, titled, 'Power through the Algorithm'. Beer draws our attention to the various ways our lives have come to be dominated by digitally networked technologies. To understand what is consequential about this development, he focuses on how digital algorithms factor into our experience in covert ways and what implications this has on our understanding of power. Music and sound effects for this episode come from various sources and is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License/the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 or is covered by a SFX (Multi-Use) License. Tracks include: https://freesound.org/people/Tuben/sounds/272044/ https://freesound.org/people/funnyman850/sounds/194812/ https://freesound.org/people/smokinghotdog/sounds/584230/ https://freesound.org/people/JPMusic82/sounds/415511/
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