Why do we compulsively click on ragebait? with Angele Christin

Do algorithms shape our lives? What did clickbait look like before the internet? Why do journalists start writing differently when metrics are introduced? What does any of this have to do with cooking pasta in the bathtub, the actress Sarah Bernhardt, or Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year? Join Eagleman with sociologist Angele Cristin to learn how algorithms invisibly sculpt our behavior.

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Angele Christin (2020). Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms. Princeton University Press.

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