Geographic neighbors fall outside algorithmic and perceptual filter bubbles as non-instrumental relationships

Evidence

Compared to the algorithms that recommend friends to us based on instrumental qualities—things we like, things we’ve bought, friends in common—geographical proximity is different, placing us near people we have no “obvious” instrumental reason to care about, who are neither family nor friends (nor, sometimes, even potential friends). I want to propose several reasons we should not only register, but care about and co-inhabit a reality with, the people who live around us being left out of our filter bubbles. And of course, I mean not only social media bubbles, but the filters we create with our own perception and non-perception, involving the kind of attention (or lack thereof) that I’ve described so far. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 458

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the book’s filter-bubble/attention argument (earlier chapters on perception) into the neighborhood scale; contrasts platform friendship algorithms against proximity. — connects to: Geographic neighbors fall outside the instrumental filters of algorithmic recommendation.; Joint attention requires co-presence, excluding algorithm-mediated influences — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 246; Continuous visibility under algorithmic gaze creates perpetual social-currency valuation — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1490
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Geographic neighbors fall outside the instrumental filters of algorithmic recommendation.; Joint attention requires co-presence, excluding algorithm-mediated influences — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 246; Continuous visibility under algorithmic gaze creates perpetual social-currency valuation — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1490

Broader Connections

• Continuous visibility under algorithmic gaze creates perpetual social-currency valuation #complicates (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1490