The Rise of Viral Aesthetics and the Pressure to Keep Up

How much of our lives—our tastes, preferences and choices—have been fed to us through an interlocking, impersonal network of algorithms? 

Guest: Kyle Chayka, staff writer at the New Yorker and author of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture.

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