
The Inescapable Algorithm? Part I
Several weeks ago Instagram announced that the photos of those users whom one follows will no longer just be displayed in a chronological order but will also be sorted according to their relevance. The change was however not to come into effect immediately but was to be gradually phased in. Nobody knows for sure whether their stream has or has not been changed already. I would call this a strategy of slow accustoming. A sudden launch may have led to more protests. It is parti