Chelsy Lyons is a journalist and the editor in chief of The Community Archaeologist, a digital humanities publication. Her recent work focuses on immigration trends in Oklahoma and how social media algorithms impact communities. She previously worked as a reporter for the United States Army Garrison—Italy’s Public Affairs Office.
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What do algorithmically boosted photographs do to places, or to the people who live in these places? Does fiction and mimesis merely create false expectations, or…