Some critics treat the rise of streaming algorithms as an unalloyed threat to film culture, narrowing what audiences encounter to whatever a recommendation system predicts they will tolerate. Theorist Ines Marchetti partly accepts this concern but argues that it cuts the wrong way: most viewers, she contends, were already locked into narrow preferences by older mechanisms — local cinema chains, broadcast schedules, and word-of-mouth networks — and the relevant question is whether algorithmic systems narrow those preferences further or widen them at the margins.
Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence in the text?
- A
It introduces an unrelated cultural medium.
- B
It restates the critics' position in different words.
- Ccheck_circle
It partly accepts the critics' concern while reframing the relevant question about algorithmic effects.
- D
It rejects the critics' concern outright.
Explanation
Marchetti accepts the worry about narrowing but reframes the comparison and the question. B captures this layered move.