Carmi, Elinor 
ORCID: 0000-0003-1108-2075
(2020)
Rhythmedia: A Study of Facebook Immune System.
Theory, Culture & Society, 37 (5).
pp. 119-138.
Abstract
<jats:p> This paper examines the politics behind algorithmic ordering in social media, focusing on the advertising logic behind them. This is explored through a practice I call rhythmedia – the way media companies render people, objects and their relations as rhythms and (re)order them for economic purposes. As a case study I examine the way the Facebook Immune System algorithm orchestrates people’s mediated experience towards a desired rhythm (sociality) while filtering out problematic rhythms (spam). This anti-spam algorithm shows that it is important for Facebook to understand people as rhythms and assemble a dynamic database from their mediated experiences, to convince advertisers that they know when and where people do things. People’s rhythms become a product that advertisers pay and bid for through Ad Auction to intervene in specific moments and shape people’s experience. Thus, the company can shape, manage, and filter specific rhythms to order sociality that brings more value. </jats:p>
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2021 09:55 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 22:57 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0263276420917466 |
| Open Access URL: | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02632... |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3116513 |
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