Algorithmic Worldmaking

“Algorithmic Worldmaking is a data bridge between rhetoric’s past and the algorithmic present, offering a compelling case for algorithms as agents of order. Rendered as rhetorical kosmoi, Johnson shows us how a digital syntax entraps users in deleterious patterns, platforms hate under the guise of open discourse, and encodes pathways toward algorithmic justice.” –Atilla Hallsby is assistant professor of rhetorical studies researching secrecy and digital culture at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities“An ambitious and imaginative research project that explores the impact of algorithms on cultural life. It is well done and compellingly written.” –E. Johanna Hartelius, author of The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons

Jeremy David Johnson is assistant professor of Rhetoric at the University of Denver. He is a coeditor of Speech and Debate as Civic Education.