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Michael is listening to ‘The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media’ by The Guardian’s Audio Long Reads on Spotify

The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media
By The Guardian’s Audio Long Reads

Listen on Spotify

This podcast (a recording of a Guardian “long read” article) came to mind when commenting on Charles’s ‘algorithmic play’ artefact.

While it has a fairly dystopian title, it talks about social media, addiction and behaviourist psychology, and seemed quite apt while reflecting on the following from Knox et al. (2020: 41):

‘It may be useful to term these shifts in the conceptual and functional understandings of learning ‘machine behaviourism’: forms of learning that are shaped and conditioned by a combination of complex machine learning technologies with (often radical) behaviourist psychology and behavioural economics.’