Algorithms Recast Storytelling Power

Technologies have moved storytelling from communal myth-making and gatekept institutions to platform and algorithm‑mediated systems that design, personalize, and monetize narratives at scale. That shift changes who sets cultural frames, enables targeted persuasion, and fragments shared public myths. — If algorithms and platforms now select and synthesize stories, they reshape civic consensus, political persuasion, and cultural cohesion — making oversight and literacy urgent public issues.