{"product_id":"algorithmic-culture-before-the-internet-9780231206693","title":"Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet","description":"\u003cp\u003eToday, algorithms exercise outsize influence on cultural decision-making, shaping and even reshaping the concept of culture. How were automated, computational processes empowered to perform this work? What forces prompted the emergence of algorithmic culture? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlgorithmic Culture Before the Internet \u003c\/i\u003eis a history of how culture and computation came to be entangled. From Cambridge, England, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, by way of medieval Baghdad, this book pinpoints the critical junctures at which algorithmic culture began to coalesce in language long before it materialized in the technological wizardry of Silicon Valley. Revising and extending the methodology of \"keywords,\" Ted Striphas examines changing concepts and definitions of culture, including the development of the field of cultural studies, and stresses the importance of language in the history of technology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOffering historical and interdisciplinary perspective on the relationship of culture and computation, this book provides urgently needed context for the algorithmic injustices that beset the world today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTed Striphas is associate professor of media studies and affiliate faculty in information science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia, 2009) and coeditor of the journal \u003ci\u003eCultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50487605690642,"sku":"9780231206693","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0f9108f5-80ca-43fa-adb9-c9ca6162cf64.jpg?v=1730447683","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/algorithmic-culture-before-the-internet-9780231206693","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}