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EPISODE · Jun 7, 2023 · 42 MIN

80 *Slaps Roof of Algorithm* You Can Fit so Much Taste in This Thing with Nick Seaver

from Reimagining the Internet · host Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure

Do Spotify’s algorithms make a listener’s music taste, or does taste make the algorithm? Nick Seaver embedded himself as an ethnographer at a music recommendation software firm to learn about the the very real way very specific people influence the algorithms that power our automated world. Nick Seaver directs the program in Science, Technology, and […]

Do Spotify’s algorithms make a listener’s music taste, or does taste make the algorithm? Nick Seaver embedded himself as an ethnographer at a music recommendation software firm to learn about the the very real way very specific people influence the algorithms that power our automated world. Nick Seaver directs the program in Science, Technology, and […]

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