ALGOpod #4: Nick Seaver

In episode four of ALGOpod, Gabriele de Seta welcomes Nick Seaver, Associate Professor in Anthropology and Director of the Science, Technology & Society program at Tufts University, to catch up on his recent ethnographic research on algorithms, computing and automation.

References

Crary, J. (1999) Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture https://archive.org/details/suspensionsofper0000crar

Daston, L. (2011) The Empire of Observation, 1600-1800 

Drott, E. (2021) Fake Streams, Listening Bots, and Click Farms

Elish, M. C., and Boyd, D. (2018) Situating Methods in the Magic of Big Data and AI 

Gell, A. (1992) The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology 

Jobin, A. (2022) Organic Search: The Marketing of a Concept and Its Political Implications 

Nakamura, L. (2002) Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet 

Seaver, N. (2022) Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation 

Seaver, N. (Forthcoming) Attention Fragments https://nickseaver.net/attention-fragments