How Algorithms Shape Our Lives

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 9, 2017

John Cheney-Lippold, an assistant professor of American Culture and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan, joins us to discuss his book, We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves. Cheney-Lippold looks at how algorithms form our digital identities, and how that information is used by everyone from Google to the U.S. government.

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