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Listening & Compression As Metaphors For Algorithmically Curated News Feeds

September 10, 2014 · by Robin James · in Uncategorized

This is a revised version of a post I originally published on 9/10/14. Thanks for all the feedback! I’m still not finished with this argument, so if you have further ideas, I’d love to talk. In her post on Twitter’s…

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