The Burden of Choice: Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture

by Jonathan Cohn

Book Overview

The Burden of Choice examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Fundamentally concerned with how the recommendation has come to serve as a form of control that frames a contemporary American as heteronormative, white, and well off, this book asserts that the industries that use these automated recommendations tend to ignore and obscure all other...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081359782X
• ISBN13: 9780813597829
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher