Iteration as Persuasion in a Digital World

Forthcoming

A Special Issue of AI and Society Journal,  edited by myself and Ruichen Zhang (Sociology). It is based on a series of Re- Network seminars held at CRASSH in Easter 2019 (e.g. http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28053). The volume argues that social processes driven by repetition, such as cultural memory, belief-creation, and ideas of consensus, need urgent reconsideration in a digital public sphere. It explores the agency of repetition itself – for example, its ability to offer identity, to reify, and to direct attention – aiming to unpack exactly how the digital encodes the human, and vice versa.