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Kyle Chayka

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“Years later, Kyle's argument is that airspace has turned into what he now calls filter world, a phrase he uses to describe how algorithmic recommendations have become one of the most dominating forces in culture, and as a result, have pushed mainstream society to converge on a kind of bland sameness in its taste. If you've been listening to Dakota, this is going to sound awfully familiar. The core thesis of Kyle's book that algorithmic recommendations make everything feel the same hits at an idea that we've talked about countless times on the show, that how content is distributed shapes what content is made, whether it's Google search, YouTube, or TikTok, these platforms and their algorithms dictate how videos are shot, how headlines and articles are written and discovered, and now even how food, music, and art become popular. It is a powerful concept, and it's an inescapable fact of life on the modern internet and in the real world. So I was really excited to sit down with”
2024-03-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How to save culture from the algorithms, with Filterworld author Kyle Chayka · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hello, welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil Patel, editor in chief of the Virgin Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. Today I'm talking to Kyle Cheka, a staff writer for the New Yorker, a regular contributor to the Verge, an author of the new book, Filter World, how Algorithms Flatten Culture. Kyle has been writing for years now about how the culture of big social media platforms bleeds into real life, first affecting how things look and now shaping how and what culture is created and the mechanisms by which that culture spreads all around the world. Kyle wrote a fantastic feature for the Verge back in 2016 called Welcome to Airspace, which was an early exploration of this idea. We'll link it in the show notes below. At the time, he noted that the aesthetics of physical spaces like coffee shops and co-working offices were being heavily influenced by Airbnb in Instagram, flattening global interior design into one vibe optimized for platforms.”
2024-03-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How to save culture from the algorithms, with Filterworld author Kyle Chayka · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT