{"id":24715,"date":"2024-05-02T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=24715"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:31","slug":"spotlight-on-research-may-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2024\/spotlight-on-research-may-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Research: Prof. Sarah Brouillette\u2019s Research Explores How Social Media Platforms Are Changing Conditions in the Publishing Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Spotlight on Research: Prof. Sarah Brouillette\u2019s Research Explores How Social Media Platforms Are Changing Conditions in the Publishing Industry\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton News Room recently highlighted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Carleton_U\/status\/1785331876795674982?t=qdmDJC0iN2WTE7ahZrgeeg&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Sarah Brouillette research on TikTok<\/a>, which she argues is one among a handful of social media platforms changing the conditions that writers and other publishing industry workers face today. You can find out more about this work at <a href=\"https:\/\/post45.org\/2023\/12\/introduction-reading-with-algorithms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Post 45<\/a>, where Prof. Brouillette and Susanna Sacks track the shaping force that social media platform algorithms are having on reading practices and emerging aesthetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u201cReading with Algorithms,\u201d Prof. Brouillette and her co-author argue that AI and machine learning, data collection and control, are now inescapable facets of how people read: watched over by corporations, interrupted by advertisements, distracted by multiplying devices and open tabs, joined by others engaging with the same content, our practices all observed and reflected in new textual forms. They notice that algorithmic effects are distributed and experienced unevenly, reflecting varying levels of access to social media reading experiences, as well as varying forms of exposure to surveillance and control. They ask: What does it mean to read with and through algorithmic structures?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton News Room recently highlighted Prof. Sarah Brouillette research on TikTok, which she argues is one among a handful of social media platforms changing the conditions that writers and other publishing industry workers face today. You can find out more about this work at Post 45, where Prof. Brouillette and Susanna Sacks track the shaping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sor"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24743,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715\/revisions\/24743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}