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spir-13009	Glatt, Zoë	PRECARITY, DISCRIMINATION AND (IN)VISIBILITY: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF “THE ALGORITHM” IN THE INFLUENCER INDUSTRY	2023.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1293	47	34	Some may wonder if ethnography is a useful method for investigating platforms’ algorithmic recommendation systems, unable to get to the heart of how they “actually work”, but I argue that attending to the lived experiences of content creators who navigate algorithms on a daily basis adds a powerful and complimentary dimension to more macro structural critiques of the asymmetries of power built into capitalist algorithmic systems (for example, Noble, 2018). This paper explores with an anthropological lens the multifaceted and situated ways that YouTube content creators understand and respond to “The Algorithm” in their working lives.	cache/spir-13009.pdf	txt/spir-13009.txt