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As a person in transition, her queer subject position is reflected in the ways in which the profiling machines do not demarcate a clear, obvious space for her. A similar issue came up in my interview with Hayden, who is also transgender and uses social media primarily to read transition blogs on Tumblr and Instagram. He is not particularly impressed by the way  in which algorithms seem to only put “two and two together” when “the way  things work in society can be quite the opposite.” If this is how algorithms work by simplifying human thoughts and identity, Hayden thinks social media platforms are moving in the wrong direction. As he tellingly suggests, “people aren’t a math problem.”25\n\nAlgorithmic mismatches may be perceived as problematic when they are no longer perceived as “innocent” but turn into a more permanent confrontation that feels inescapable and more intrusive. For Lena, the Facebook algorithm is at odds with how she identifies in life. She is no longer the person she used to be. Yet, she feels constantly trapped by her past. She no longer hangs out with the same crowd. She does not share their interests. She has moved across the country from a small rural town in Texas to New York City, where she now goes to grad school. She identifies strongly as liberal and, of course, votes for the Democrats, she says. Yet, all the updates Lena sees on her news feed seem to stem from Republican voters and people who are only interested in celebrity gossip. This obvious disconnect between who she identifies as being and how Facebook seems to have her figured out annoys her. She is annoyed that her “own social network is so out of sync” with her interests and beliefs. Although she speculates that her inability to escape her past could be a result of adding most of her FB “friends” when she was atending high school in rural Texas and not adding as many since she moved to New York City, Lena thinks the algorithm “must be incorrectly assessing my social networking desires.”26 While “real” life allows the past to be the past, algorithmic systems make it dificult to “move on.” As Beer (2013) notes, the archive records and works to shape memory by defining what is relatable and retrievable. What happens when the world algorithms create is not in sync (to use Lena’s own words) with how people experience themselves in the present? To what extent do existing social networking profiles remain forever muddied by past lives and experiences?\n\nMemory is a powerful thing. It lives in the flash of a second and the duration of a lifetime, it emerges in lifelike dreams and the drowsiness of mornings. Memories can be recalled at will or willfully withdrawn. A memory is an event that connects us to the past and makes it possible to project a path for the future. Memory is an encounter, a distraction, an opportunity, a daydream, or a denial. In the digital age, memories can be made, encouraged, and programmed to make people participate more, share more, engage more. For Albert, this is where machines fall short—“just maybe, there isn’t an algorithm capable of capturing human experience,” he tweets.27 When asking Albert to provide some context to his tweet, he explains:\n\nAffective Landscapes\n\n103","previous_page":102,"next_page":104}