Full Description
Algorithms have risen to become one, if not the central technology for producing, circulating, and evaluating knowledge in multiple societal arenas. In this book, scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and computer science argue that this shift has, and will continue to have, profound implications for how knowledge is produced and what and whose knowledge is valued and deemed valid. To attend to this fundamental change, the authors propose the concept of algorithmic regimes and demonstrate how they transform the epistemological, methodological, and political foundations of knowledge production, sensemaking, and decision-making in contemporary societies. Across sixteen chapters, the volume offers a diverse collection of contributions along three perspectives on algorithmic regimes: the methods necessary to research and design algorithmic regimes, the ways in which algorithmic regimes reconfigure sociotechnical interactions, and the politics engrained in algorithmic regimes.
Contents
Algorithmic Regimes: Methods, Interactions, and Politics, Knowing in Algorithmic Regimes. An Introduction, METHODS, Revisiting Transparency Efforts in Algorithmic Regimes, Understanding and Analyzing Science's Algorithmic Regimes - a Primer in Computational Science Code Studies, Sensitizing for Algorithms Foregrounding Experience in the Interpretive Study of Algorithmic Regimes, Reassembling the Black Box of Machine Learning: Of Monsters and the Reversibility of Foldings, Methods in algorithmic regimes, INTERACTIONS, Buildings in the Algorithmic Regime: Infrastructuring Processes in Computational Design, The Organization in the Loop: Exploring Organizations as Complex Elements of Algorithmic Assemblages, Algorithm-Driven Reconfigurations of Trust Regimes: An Analysis of the Potentiality of Fake News, Recommender Systems Beyond the Filter Bubble: Algorithmic Media and the Fabrication of Publics, Taking to Machines. Knowledge Production and Social Relations in the Age of Governance by Data Infrastructure, POLITICS The Politics of Data Science. Institutionalizing Algorithmic Regimes of Knowledge Production 308, Algorithmic Futures: Governmentality and Prediction Regimes, Power and resistance in the Twitter bias discourse, Making Algorithms Fair. Ethnographic Insights from Machine Learning Interventions, Commentary: The Entanglements, Failures And Uncertainties Of Algorithmic Regimes, Index.
