(Re)action and Free Will in the Digital Age

Black Box effect and algorithmic mediation of reality: will we still be able to speak of free will?

It's a day like any other. While drinking your coffee, you open your favorite social media and scroll through your feed. A post about current events catches your eye; you open it and start reading the various comments. You contribute to the discussion with a Pepe gif and continue sipping your coffee.

Like you, hundreds of millions of people do the same e…