PUBLISHING

Our first publication. Coming soon.

Raised by Algorithms is a short, unsettling book about how young people (and increasingly adults) learn what is possible, safe, and meaningful in a world shaped by platforms, pressure, and disappearing human infrastructure.

Rather than focusing on screen time, attention spans, or individual pathology, the book asks a different question:

What happens to choice when meaning itself is shaped by algorithms, institutions, and instability?

Drawing on years of youth work, education, and cultural practice, Raised by Algorithms introduces a clear framework for understanding why people repeat patterns that harm them, why “good interventions” so often fail, and why behaviour that looks irrational is often structurally coherent.

This is not a self-help book.
It does not offer tips, fixes, or programmes.

It offers a lens.

A way of seeing how meaning stabilises, collapses, and loops — in young people, institutions, movements, and society more broadly.

About the Author

Benjamin Turner is a filmmaker, educator, and founder of The Spit Game and Rap Club Productions C.I.C.

His work sits across film, youth culture, education, and theory, with projects shown at BAFTA-qualifying festivals and used in schools, universities, and youth settings across the UK.

Across all mediums, his focus is the same:
power, pressure, agency, and what young people are adapting to, not what they are failing at.

Raised by Algorithms is his first published book.

What Comes Next

This book is the first release in a wider body of work exploring Meaning Dynamics — a developing framework for understanding choice, stability, and agency under pressure.

Future publications will expand the formal theory, apply it to real-world systems, and explore how meaning collapses and reforms across culture, institutions, and personal lives.

This book stands on its own.
It is also the beginning of something larger.