Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
Published 2024 · 83,875 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture to read?
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture scores 48 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 48 out of 100
- Accessible, with platform and design vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Clear magazine sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Concrete examples supporting a claim about cultural flattening.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Reportage plus theory, steadily paced.
How Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture is regarded
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture holds a literary regard score of 38 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.