Algorithms of Resistance

The Everyday Fight against Platform Power

Tiziano Bonini, Emiliano Trere

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MIT Press
12 March 2024

Computing: general

How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our lives.

How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our lives.

Algorithms are all around us, permeating more and more aspects of our daily lives. While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, Algorithms of Resistance shows how people can resist algorithms across a variety of domains. Drawing from rich ethnographic materials and perspectives from both the Global North and South, authors Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere explore how people appropriate and reconfigure algorithms to pursue their objectives in three domains of everyday life- gig work, cultural industries, and politics. They reveal how forms of algorithmic agency and resistance are endemic and mundane and how the platform society is a contested battleground of contrasting forces.

Bonini and Trere begin by outlining their key theoretical framework of moral economies. This framework argues that algorithms exist on a continuum. At its two extremes are two competing moral economies- the user moral economy and the platform moral economy. From here, Algorithms of Resistance chronicles the various inventive ways that individuals can work to achieve agency and resist the ubiquitous power of algorithms. Casting a wide net with a diverse range of case studies, Bonini and Trere reveal the moral imperative for all of us-from delivery drivers to artists to social movements-to resist algorithms.

By: Tiziano Bonini, Emiliano Trere
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262547420
ISBN 10: 0262547422
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 12 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Tiziano Bonini is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication in the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Siena in Italy. Emiliano Trere is Reader in Data Agency and Media Ecologies at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Culture. He is the author of Hybrid Media Activism, winner of the Outstanding Book Award of the ICA Interest Group ""Activism, Communication and Social Justice."""