Netflix Recommends - by Mattias Frey (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Algorithmic recommender systems, deployed by media companies to suggest content based on users' viewing histories, have inspired hopes for personalized, curated media, but also dire warnings of filter bubbles and media homogeneity. Curiously, both proponents and detractors assume that recommender systems are novel, effective, and widely used methods to choose films and series. Scrutinizing the world's most subscribed streaming service, Netflix, this book challenges that consensus. Investigating real-life users, marketing rhetoric, technical processes, business models, and historical antecedents, Mattias Frey demonstrates that these choice aids are neither as revolutionary nor alarming, neither as trusted nor widely used, as their celebrants and critics maintain. Netflix Recommends illustrates the constellations of sources that real viewers use to choose films and series in the digital age, and argues that, although some lament AI's hostile takeover of humanistic cultures, the thirst for filters, curators, and critics is stronger than ever"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Algorithmic recommender systems, deployed by media companies to suggest content based on users' viewing histories, have inspired hopes for personalized, curated media but also dire warnings of filter bubbles and media homogeneity. Curiously, both proponents and detractors assume that recommender systems for choosing films and series are novel, effective, and widely used. Scrutinizing the world's most subscribed streaming service, Netflix, this book challenges that consensus. Investigating real-life users, marketing rhetoric, technical processes, business models, and historical antecedents, Mattias Frey demonstrates that these choice aids are neither as revolutionary nor as alarming as their celebrants and critics maintain--and neither as trusted nor as widely used. <i>Netflix Recommends</i> brings to light the constellations of sources that real viewers use to choose films and series in the digital age and argues that although some lament AI's hostile takeover of humanistic cultures, the thirst for filters, curators, and critics is stronger than ever.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>"A superb analysis of recommendation in the cultural industries that is technically astute, business savvy, and uniquely engaged with larger critical debates about taste and intermediation. Mattias Frey does an outstanding job of navigating this tricky terrain. <i>Netflix Recommends </i>is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics and prehistories of algorithmic recommendation."--Ramon Lobato, author of <i>Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution</i> <p/> "An intriguing alternative to critiques of platform power that question the use of algorithmic technologies as arbiters of cultural value. Frey contributes to the ongoing debate by concluding that Netflix's discoverability and customization features avoid elitist taste cultures long associated with traditional arts curation after an extensive survey of more than two thousand users."--Denise Mann, author of <i>Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover</i> <br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Mattias Frey</b> is Professor of Film, Media, and Culture at the University of Kent and the author or coeditor of seven books, including <i>The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism</i> and <i>Film Criticism in the Digital Age</i>.</p>
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