[Commlist] New book: Just for You: Inside the Personalisation Algorithms that Curate Our Image of the World

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New book from Nordicom:
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*Just for You: Inside the Personalisation Algorithms that Curate Our 
Image of the World *
Written by: Jannie Møller Hartley

Read and download the book Open Access: 
https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/just-you 
<https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/just-you>

Every day, invisible algorithms decide what news reaches us, what 
stories fade from view, and, quietly, how we come to understand the 
world. To uncover how these systems work, Jannie Møller Hartley spent 
years inside the machinery of personalisation, following journalists, 
editors, and data scientists as they grapple with what it means when 
machines take on something as deeply human as judgment.

Running through this story is the extraordinary life of Ada Lovelace, 
whose nineteenth-century vision of algorithms offers a powerful and 
historic lens on today’s debates about artificial intelligence, 
creativity, and human agency.

Blending storytelling, the history of algorithms, and original research, 
this book reveals how the technologies shaping our information 
environment influence what we know, what we notice, and how democratic 
life unfolds. It shows that algorithms carry human values, ambitions, 
and blind spots.

Written for researchers, journalists, students, technologists, 
policymakers, and anyone curious about life in an AI-powered information 
ecosystem, this book invites readers to imagine how these systems could 
be built differently.

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