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To be or not to be algorithm aware: a question of a new digital divide?

Anne-Britt Grana BI Centre for Creative Industries, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, NorwayCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Peter Bootha BI Centre for Creative Industries, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, NorwayView further author information
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Taina Bucherb Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;c Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Oslo, NorwayView further author information
Pages 1779-1796 | Received 20 Aug 2019, Accepted 20 Feb 2020, Published online: 09 Mar 2020

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