About
Nick Seaver is an anthropologist of technology who studies how technologists understand cultural phenomena. His first book, Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation, is an ethnography of the developers of recommender systems. His current research examines the rise of attention as a value and virtue in machine learning worlds.
Awards
- Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities at Tufts, 2020
Relevant Publications
- Seaver, N. (2017). Algorithms as Culture: Some Tactics for the Ethnography of Algorithmic Systems. Big Data & Society, 4(2).
- Seaver, N. (2021). Everything Lies in a Space: Cultural Data and Spatial Reality. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 27(S1), 43–61.
- Seaver, N. (2021). Care and Scale: Decorrelative Ethics in Algorithmic Recommendation. Cultural Anthropology, 36(3), 509–537.
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