David Beer

Professor of Sociology at the, University of York, UK. His most recent book, written with Benjamin Jacobsen, is Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory. His previous books include The Quirks of Digital Culture, Georg Simmel's Concluding Thoughts, The Data Gaze, Metric Power, Punk Sociology, Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation and New Media: The Key Concepts (with Nicholas Gane). He also the editor of the book The Social Power of Algorithms.

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How Netflix Affects What We Watch And Who We Are – And It’s Not Just The Algorithm

Netflix’s dystopian Korean drama Squid Game has become the streaming platform’s biggest-ever series launch, with 111 million viewers watching at least two minutes of an episode. Out of the thousands of programmes available on Netflix globally, how did so many people end up watching the same show? The easy answer is an algorithm – a computer program that offers us personalised recommendations on a

David Beer 03/04/2022

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