How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our lives. Algorithms are all around us, permeating more and more aspects of our daily lives. While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, Algorithms of Resistance shows how people can resist algorithms across a variety of domains. Drawing from rich ethnographic materials and perspectives from both the Global North and South, authors Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré explore how people appropriate and reconfigure algorithms to pursue their objectives in three domains of everyday life: gig work, cultural industries, and politics. They reveal how forms of algorithmic agency and resistance are endemic and mundane and how the platform society is a contested battleground of contrasting forces. Bonini and Treré begin by outlining their key theoretical framework of moral economies. This framework argues that algorithms exist on a continuum. At its two extremes are two competing moral economies: the user moral economy and the platform moral economy. From here, Algorithms of Resistance chronicles the various inventive ways that individuals can work to achieve agency and resist the ubiquitous power of algorithms. Casting a wide net with a diverse range of case studies, Bonini and Treré reveal the moral imperative for all of us—from delivery drivers to artists to social movements—to resist algorithms.
Come lavoratori globali, influencer e attivisti sviluppano tattiche di resistenza algoritmica appropriandosi e riproponendo gli stessi algoritmi che controllano le nostre vite. Gli algoritmi sono intorno a noi e permeano sempre più aspetti della nostra vita quotidiana. Mentre i resoconti sul potere delle piattaforme tendono ad apparire cupi e monolitici, Algorithms of Resistance mostra come le persone possano resistere agli algoritmi in una varietà di ambiti. Attingendo a un ricco materiale etnografico e a prospettive provenienti sia dal Nord che dal Sud del mondo, gli autori Tiziano Bonini ed Emiliano Treré esplorano il modo in cui le persone si appropriano e riconfigurano gli algoritmi per perseguire i loro obiettivi in tre domini della vita quotidiana: il lavoro in nero, le industrie culturali e la politica. Essi rivelano come le forme di agenzia e resistenza algoritmica siano endemiche e banali e come la società delle piattaforme sia un campo di battaglia contestato da forze contrastanti. Bonini e Treré iniziano delineando il loro quadro teorico chiave delle economie morali. Questo quadro sostiene che gli algoritmi esistono su un continuum. Ai suoi due estremi si trovano due economie morali in competizione: l'economia morale dell'utente e l'economia morale della piattaforma. Da qui, Algorithms of Resistance racconta i vari modi inventivi in cui gli individui possono lavorare per raggiungere l'agency e resistere al potere onnipresente degli algoritmi. Gettando un'ampia rete con una vasta gamma di casi di studio, Bonini e Treré rivelano l'imperativo morale per tutti noi - dai fattorini agli artisti ai movimenti sociali - di resistere agli algoritmi.
Bonini, T., Treré, E. (2024). Algorithms of Resistance: the everyday fight against platform power. Cambridge (Massachusetts); London : The MIT Press [10.7551/mitpress/14329.001.0001].
Algorithms of Resistance: the everyday fight against platform power
Bonini, Tiziano
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2024-01-01
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How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our lives. Algorithms are all around us, permeating more and more aspects of our daily lives. While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, Algorithms of Resistance shows how people can resist algorithms across a variety of domains. Drawing from rich ethnographic materials and perspectives from both the Global North and South, authors Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré explore how people appropriate and reconfigure algorithms to pursue their objectives in three domains of everyday life: gig work, cultural industries, and politics. They reveal how forms of algorithmic agency and resistance are endemic and mundane and how the platform society is a contested battleground of contrasting forces. Bonini and Treré begin by outlining their key theoretical framework of moral economies. This framework argues that algorithms exist on a continuum. At its two extremes are two competing moral economies: the user moral economy and the platform moral economy. From here, Algorithms of Resistance chronicles the various inventive ways that individuals can work to achieve agency and resist the ubiquitous power of algorithms. Casting a wide net with a diverse range of case studies, Bonini and Treré reveal the moral imperative for all of us—from delivery drivers to artists to social movements—to resist algorithms.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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