“Big data sees through you”: Sexual identifications in an age of algorithmic recommendation
This post was written by Shuaishuai Wang and Rachel Spronk as part of the GDC-funded project “From Performativity to Behavioral Data: The Algorithmic Configurations of Sexuality on Social Media in China”. Meet Loki, a short video creator on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. Documenting daily life with his same-sex partner with short videos, Loki…