algorithm backlash

  • activism

  • online political dissent with regards to particular algorithms, platform changes, platform culture/response to it’s structural issues

  • general discussion of algorithmic power to determine narratives and behaviours en masse

  • attempts to poison and alter particular functions of algorithms, flood an area of interest (eg a popular hashtag) or otherwise dissent by creative use or misuse of platform tools

  • eg artists against ‘i need this on a shirt’ art plagiarism and dropshopping

  • Resources

    Section titled “Resources”

  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20563051231196897