Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2024-01-17
Alex Kantrowitz & Kyle Chayka: books mentioned on Big Technology Podcast
Would a World Without Algorithms Be Better? — With Kyle Chayka
Kyle Chayka is a New Yorker staff writer and author of FILTERWORLD: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Chayka joins Big Technology Podcast to talk about his book — which debuts this week — and dig into whether algorithms really do make our culture flatter.
Alex Kantrowitz discussed Filterworld by Kyle Chayka.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Filterworld
Discussed“I'm sure you thought about this when you wrote the book. What's your what's your take on that?”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Filterworld
“He's also the author of a new book called Filter World, How Algorithms Flatten Culture, coming out this week.”
Passing Filterworld
“So I'm kind of a sucker for filter world, um, both the book, I guess, and the, and the algorithms, but what, what tastemakers often do is tell us like how, how, how, how things don't measure up to the bar”
Passing Filterworld
“He's the author of Filter World, How Algorithms Flatten Culture. He also writes for The New Yorker, writes about tech for The New Yorker, covers AI, a lot of social media.”