AFFECTION suffuses the language of networks. Homophily, the axiom of “love as love of the same,” is the framework underlying what you see in your timelines and search results, what recommendations and ads appear, whether you get access to good rates for health care, whether you get released on bail. Attention, connections, and silently traced actions lead to the likelihoods of ties, discovered relationships, clusters, and “virtual neighborhoods.”

"An interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun"

This project entails not only intervening at the level of social media but also trying to understand the ways in which information is part of everyday life

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