Algorithmic oracles

Attended presentation in POP panel, online spaces as contemporary cultural playgrounds

Method: Netnography + discourse analysis + in-depth interviews

Research goal: understanding how and why people switch to deepseek fortune telling from traditional fortune telling.

Findings:

  • essence and feature of deepseek
    • real time response
    • interactive logic
    • data-driven personalized output
  • reconstruction mechanisms
    • visualization of truth production
    • interactive ritual construction
    • cognitive closed-loop manufacturing
  • disenchantment and reenchantment
  • mysticism dependance + technological rationality -> cyber fortunetelling
  • activation pathways
    • emotional comfort
    • satisfying curiosity

technological empowerment and cognitive deprivation are two sides of the same coin

  • cognitive alienation
  • cultural alienation
  • existential alienation

are the fundamental alienations in the digital age, they give the illusion of certainty and we try to find certainty through technology

Discussion