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Democratic Algorithms: Ethnography of a Public Recommender System
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Abstract Can an algorithm be democratic? And how can we understand algorithms not only as technical, but also as social and political phenomena? Democratic Algorithms offers theoretically and empirically informed perspectives on how we can imagine and design algorithms for a democratic society, and what we e... view more
Can an algorithm be democratic? And how can we understand algorithms not only as technical, but also as social and political phenomena? Democratic Algorithms offers theoretically and empirically informed perspectives on how we can imagine and design algorithms for a democratic society, and what we even mean by that. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book illustrates how a recommender system was built in a public broadcaster, raising questions not only about organizational and technical implementation, but also about the possible compatibility of such an algorithmic system with democratic constitutions.... view less
Keywords
algorithm; digitalization; artificial intelligence; effects of technology
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Publisher
meson press
City
Lüneburg
Page/Pages
213 p.
ISBN
978-3-95796-225-6
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed