The algorithmic imaginary: exploring the ordinary affects of Facebook algorithms

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 30-44

  Bucher, Taina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

affect; Algorithm; algorithmic imaginary; experience; social power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959184895     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2016.1154086     Document Type: Article

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