{"product_id":"living-with-algorithms-agency-and-user-culture-in-costa-rica-9780262545426","title":"Living with Algorithms: Agency and User Culture in Costa Rica","description":"\u003cb\u003eA nuanced account from a user perspective of what it's like to live in a datafied world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and identities into data others can analyze and monetize. Algorithms are key to this process, surveilling our most mundane practices, and to many, their control over our lives seems absolute. In \u003ci\u003eLiving with Algorithms\u003c\/i\u003e, Ignacio Siles critically challenges this view by surveying user dynamics in the global south across three algorithmic platforms--Netflix, Spotify, and TikTok--and finds, surprisingly, a more balanced relationship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that privileges the user over the corporate, Siles examines the personal relationships that have formed between users and algorithms as Latin Americans have integrated these systems into the structures of everyday life, enacted them ritually, participated in public with and through them, and thwarted them. Sometimes users follow algorithms, Siles finds, and sometimes users resist them. At times, users do both. Agency lies in the navigation of the spaces in-between. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy analyzing what we do with algorithms rather than what algorithms do to us, \u003ci\u003eLiving with Algorithms \u003c\/i\u003eclarifies the debate over the future of datafication and whether we have a say in its development. Concentrating on an understudied region of the global south, the book provides a new perspective on the commonalities and differences among users within a global ecology of technologies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11266666\"\u003eIgnacio Siles\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.91w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262545426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 026254542X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-TEC\"\u003eTechnology \u0026amp; Engineering\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-TEC052000\"\u003eSocial Aspects\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC071000\"\u003eTechnology Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS007000\"\u003eLatin America | Central America\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIgnacio Siles is a professor of media and technology studies in the School of Communication at Universidad de Costa Rica. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Transnational History of the Internet in Central America: Networks, Integration, and Development\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNetworked Selves: Trajectories of Blogging in the United States and France\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44570363003117,"sku":"9780262545426","price":66.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_4b26acdf-41a0-44b8-80a2-d958a552fa35.jpg?v=1701934766","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/living-with-algorithms-agency-and-user-culture-in-costa-rica-9780262545426","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}