[Air-L] agency / neutrality of algorithms

Wed Jun 1 04:17:25 PDT 2016

Alex

This is awesome! Thanks so much for putting together.
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Hi everyone,

The response has been amazing, thank you all for your wonderful suggestions
on and off list. And sorry if I missed someone in responding personally.
I took the liberty of putting together a public Google Doc with all the
suggestions. I tried to keep it short but provide context where original
authors supplied few lines of elaboration.
The list is freely editable, so if you feel there's something missing or
would rather not have your suggestions there - please edit it or email me
and I'll do it.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OaAnpaLaOQs0YgUaPZ0lEThy0EI9_RrjtrqdQYBYHMs/edit?usp=sharing

regards,
Alex.

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 12:51 AM Malte Ziewitz <mziewitz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alex, if you are specifically interested in the research strategy of
> 'ethicizing' analytic objects, the following exchange might be a good
> starting point:
>
> Kraemer, Felicitas, Kees Overveld, and Martin Peterson. 2010. “Is There an
> Ethics of Algorithms?” Ethics and Information Technology 13 (3): 251–60.
> doi:10.1007/s10676-010-9233-7.
>
> Anderson, Robert J., and Wesley W. Sharrock. 2013. “Ethical Algorithms: A
> Brief Comment on an Extensive Muddle.”,
>
> http://www.sharrockandanderson.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Ethical-Algorithms.pdf
>
> Taken together, the two articles highlight some of the (fascinating) issues
> that arise from adding epithets like 'ethical,' 'neutral,' 'moral', etc. to
> computational phenomena.
>
> All best,
> Malte
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Josh Scannell <joshua.scannell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm a lurker on this listserv but I would like to second this list. It is
> > invaluable.
> >
> > On Monday, May 30, 2016, Tarleton L. Gillespie <tlg28 at cornell.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I'd like to recommend this:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://socialmediacollective.org/reading-lists/critical-algorithm-studies/
> > >
> > > Nick Seaver and I had been trying to keep tabs on this scholarship.
> Many
> > > of the pieces on this list, especially in sections 0.2, 1.1, and 1.2.
> > >
> > > Tarleton
> > >
> > > sent from my iphone, sorry for my fat fingers.
> > >
> > > > On May 30, 2016, at 4:09 PM, Elizabeth Anne Watkins <
> > > writetowatkins at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The Yale Information Society Project recently held a spectacular
> > > conference
> > > > on Algorithmic Accountability, which may be of interest:
> > > >
> > > > http://isp.yale.edu/node/6055
> > > >
> > > >> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Alex Gekker <gekker.alex at gmail.com
> > > <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Hi list,
> > > >>
> > > >> I've been running into a lot of writing criticising the notion of
> > > >> "algorithms are neutral" recently, but yet to find a scholarly work
> > that
> > > >> tackles the subject yet. Any recommendations?
> > > >>
> > > >> Here are some examples for the types of arguments I'm interested in:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > >
> >
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/go-tweak-yourself-facebook/480258/
> > > >> https://socialmediacollective.org/2016/05/18/facebook-trends/
> > > >>
> > > >> thanks,
> > > >> Alex.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> =======
> > > >>
> > > >> Alex Gekker, PhD Candidate (Promovendus), Media and Culture, Utrecht
> > > >> University.
> > > >> Charting the Digital http://www.digitalcartography.eu/
> > > >> http://alexgekker.com
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