Rise of the Digital Angels
August 14, 2015
Everyone knows that we are living an increasing amount of our lives online. But who’s performing the digital reckoning, watching the profiles we create and judging us on that basis? Hassan Masum and Mark Tovey have been thinking about that unsettling question – they are the authors of The Reputation Society: How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World. They sent this beautiful reflection on the algorithms and other “digital angels” who now watch over us.