Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms

W Schinkel - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Anthropological expeditions seeking out algorithms frequently return empty-handed. They
are confronted with the challenge of the object: what to study when studying algorithms? In …

Why am I seeing this? Deconstructing algorithm literacy through the lens of users

D Shin, A Rasul, A Fotiadis - Internet Research, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose As algorithms permeate nearly every aspect of digital life, artificial intelligence (AI)
systems exert a growing influence on human behavior in the digital milieu. Despite its …

Mass personalization: Predictive marketing algorithms and the reshaping of consumer knowledge

B Kotras - Big data & society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper focuses on the conception and use of machine-learning algorithms for marketing.
In the last years, specialized service providers as well as in-house data scientists have been …

The effects of cultural dimensions on algorithmic news: How do cultural value orientations affect how people perceive algorithms?

D Shin, V Chotiyaputta, B Zaid - Computers in Human Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
How do cultural values influence/are influenced by algorithms? A comparative study was
conducted between the United States (US) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to …

Acting like an algorithm: Digital farming platforms and the trajectories they (need not) lock-in

M Carolan - Social innovation and sustainability transition, 2022 - Springer
This paper contributes to our understanding of farm data value chains with assistance from
54 semi-structured interviews and field notes from participant observations …

[图书][B] Living with algorithms: Agency and user culture in Costa Rica

I Siles - 2023 - books.google.com
A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it's like to live in a datafied world. We live
in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and …

Seeing like a state, enacting like an algorithm:(Re) assembling contact tracing and risk assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic

C Liu - Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
As states increasingly use algorithms to improve the legibility of society, particularly during
the COVID-19 pandemic, it is common for concerns about the expanding power of the …

The Stack Inversion: On Algo-Centrism and the Complex Architecture of Automated Financial Securities Trading Systems

KB Hansen - Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, I argue that devoting analytical attention to the natively technical concept of
“the stack” can help re-sensitize studies of algorithms in Science and Technology Studies …

Enacting the pandemic: Analyzing agency, opacity, and power in algorithmic assemblages

F Lee - Science & Technology Studies, 2021 - sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi
This article has two objectives: First, the article seeks to make a methodological intervention
in the social study of algorithms. Today, there is a worrying trend to analytically reduce …

Algorithms as figures: Towards a post-digital ethnography of algorithmic contexts

L Cellard - New Media & Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article intervenes in contemporary discussions of critical algorithm studies about the
meaning of the notion 'algorithm'. While many critical scholars as well as most public and …