While companies feign ignorance about marginalized users on their sites, these savvy users flip the script, developing strategic knowledge about the platforms they frequent. Strategic knowledge is an imaginative praxis that uses deliberate engagement tactics to feed algorithms, in order to specify which content should grace a users’ feed. As a foil to strategic ignorance, strategic knowledge is an affirmation that human recipients of algorithmic decisions can wrest power from humans behind the code.
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