Algorithms (and the) everyday
Our everyday practices are increasingly mediated through online technologies, entailing the navigation and also oft-simultaneous creation of large quantities of information and communication data. The scale and types of activities being undertaken, the data that are being created and engaged with, a...
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| description | Our everyday practices are increasingly mediated through online technologies, entailing the navigation and also oft-simultaneous creation of large quantities of information and communication data. The scale and types of activities being undertaken, the data that are being created and engaged with, and the possibilities for analysis, archiving and distribution are now so extensive that technical constructs are necessarily required as a way to manage, interpret and distribute these. These constructs include the platforms, the software, the codes and the algorithms. This paper explores the place of the algorithm in shaping and engaging with the contemporary everyday. It does this via an exploration of some particular instances of algorithmic sorting and presentation as well as considering some of the ways these contribute to shaping our everyday practices and understandings. In doing so, it raises questions about understandings of agency and power, shifting world views and our complex relationship with technologies. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-179282017-09-13T15:43:55Z Algorithms (and the) everyday Willson, Michele Our everyday practices are increasingly mediated through online technologies, entailing the navigation and also oft-simultaneous creation of large quantities of information and communication data. The scale and types of activities being undertaken, the data that are being created and engaged with, and the possibilities for analysis, archiving and distribution are now so extensive that technical constructs are necessarily required as a way to manage, interpret and distribute these. These constructs include the platforms, the software, the codes and the algorithms. This paper explores the place of the algorithm in shaping and engaging with the contemporary everyday. It does this via an exploration of some particular instances of algorithmic sorting and presentation as well as considering some of the ways these contribute to shaping our everyday practices and understandings. In doing so, it raises questions about understandings of agency and power, shifting world views and our complex relationship with technologies. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17928 10.1080/1369118X.2016.1200645 Routledge Taylor & Fancis restricted |
| spellingShingle | Willson, Michele Algorithms (and the) everyday |
| title | Algorithms (and the) everyday |
| title_full | Algorithms (and the) everyday |
| title_fullStr | Algorithms (and the) everyday |
| title_full_unstemmed | Algorithms (and the) everyday |
| title_short | Algorithms (and the) everyday |
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| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17928 |