ALGOpod #4: Nick Seaver
Off Center15 Dec 2025

ALGOpod #4: Nick Seaver

In episode four of ALGOpod, Gabriele de Seta welcomes Nick Seaver, Associate Professor in Anthropology and Director of the Science, Technology & Society program at Tufts University, to catch up on his recent ethnographic research on algorithms, computing and automation.

References

Crary, J. (1999) Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture https://archive.org/details/suspensionsofper0000crar

Daston, L. (2011) The Empire of Observation, 1600-1800

Drott, E. (2021) Fake Streams, Listening Bots, and Click Farms

Elish, M. C., and Boyd, D. (2018) Situating Methods in the Magic of Big Data and AI

Gell, A. (1992) The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology

Jobin, A. (2022) Organic Search: The Marketing of a Concept and Its Political Implications

Nakamura, L. (2002) Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet

Seaver, N. (2022) Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation

Seaver, N. (Forthcoming) Attention Fragments https://nickseaver.net/attention-fragments

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