UCL IIPP Algorithmic Rents: Research Showcase

This UCL IIPP research showcase featured presentations from IIPP's Founding Director and Professor in the Economics of Public Value, Mariana Mazzucato, Director and Founder of O’Reilly Media, Tim O’Reilly, IIPP Head of Digital Economy, Ilan Strauss, IIPP Head of Research, Cecilia Rikap and IIPP Researcher, Rufus Rock to showcase the latest research on algorithmic rents and open the discussion on their latest work.
The showcase explored Amazon's algorithmic attention rents, Big Data evidence on Amazon's advertising, AI and corporate disclosures and a capabilities approach to Big Tech's M&A.
Read more about our research on digital economy and algorithmic rents on our research page: www.ucl.ac.uk/...

[@raphaeljara2720]

fenomenal

[@mikeklein4949]

Create new ways of defining profits in political economy.

[@MichaelHolloway]

Questioner from EU - Yes! non-profit Search - so a backbone of the NEXT: Economy - very much like the open internet fight - servers as uninvolved backbone services.

[@MichaelHolloway]

In the context of personality profile / product (or idea) aggregation - I posited in 2016 (in relation to election messaging) that we need transparency from PR firms around: • What demographics (+ where & when) were targeted; • What content was shown to which market segment (+ where & when); • A list of the personality profiles targeted in the campaign.

[@mikeklein4949]

How relevant would be camera focus on user facial expression, eye movement as we pay attention? Thus the search process becomes a truly real time dialogue.

[@jacobh82]

Also 34:07 - the claim that "advertizing = information" is ideological - it ignores the reality that much advertizing is for harmful things people don't need.