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Ted Striphas Algorithmic Culture

...Anecdotes are powerful tools for accessing these latent senses and meanings. In broadening the frame beyond intellectual history and historical semantics, they've aided us in identifying the entailments—both proximate and distant, intrinsic and extrinsic, technical and otherwise—of metacultural discourse. With this, they’ve enlarged the bandwidth of keywords, and helped reboot the project under the heading of key-words. Metacultural discourse remains a significant object of study, to be sure, but equally significant for key-words are metacultural discourse networks: the patchwork "of technologies and institutions that allow a given culture to select, store, and process relevant data"—in this case, data about culture. (166)