Nick Seaver

Anthropologist, Tufts University



Care and Scale: Decorrelative Ethics in Algorithmic RecommendationFor the people who make recommender systems, the fact that care and scale seem intrinsically opposed is a problem. This article in Cultural Anthropology describes how they try to solve it. They do so not by giving up on care or abandoning their desire to scale, but by reimagining the terms of their relationship—redefining what care and scale mean in the process.
August 2021