- Account books <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Acoustic Tile <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Battery <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Bicycle <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Bitcoin <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Calendar <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Card <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Chair <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Clock <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Cloud <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Coffee Machine <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Colour Chart <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Container <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Conversational Interface <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Copper <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Copy Machine <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Dating App <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Desk <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Elevator <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Executive Dashboard <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Filter System <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- High Heels <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Interface <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Mind Tracker <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Office Plant <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Overhead Projector <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Paper Shredder <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Pen <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Planning Table <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Prezi <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Price Book <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Push Button <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Pussyhat <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Railway Tracks <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Real Time Bidding System <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Recommender System <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Search Engine <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Smartphone <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Suit <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Telegraph <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Typeface <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Whiteboard, Flipchart <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Wiki <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- By Means of Which: Media, Technology, Organization
Abstract and Keywords
Filter systems are software tools which survey, select, prioritize, and predict information, items and users. Through their content and form, they shape behaviour by collecting individuals and items into similarity-based neighbourhoods. They limit choice and amplify past trends in the name of efficiency and desire. As technologies of organizing, filter systems are thus updating, and perhaps exacerbating, the organizational consequences of media technologies. This raises thorny questions: What are the ramifications of this kind of similarity-based categorization, and of its affectively charged zones? What (class-based, racial, gendered) aspects are factored into its parameters directly or indirectly through proxies?
Keywords: filter systems, filtering, echo chambers, recommendation systems, homophily, neighbourhoods, segregation, digital media, organization
Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada
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- Account books <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Acoustic Tile <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Battery <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Bicycle <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Bitcoin <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Calendar <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Card <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Chair <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Clock <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Cloud <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Coffee Machine <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Colour Chart <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Container <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Conversational Interface <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Copper <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Copy Machine <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Dating App <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Desk <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Elevator <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Executive Dashboard <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Filter System <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- High Heels <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Interface <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Mind Tracker <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Office Plant <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Overhead Projector <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Paper Shredder <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Pen <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Planning Table <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Prezi <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Price Book <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Push Button <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Pussyhat <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Railway Tracks <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Real Time Bidding System <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Recommender System <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Search Engine <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Smartphone <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Suit <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Telegraph <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Typeface <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Whiteboard, Flipchart <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Wiki <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- By Means of Which: Media, Technology, Organization