[Air-L] algorithms as infrastructures/archives

[Niels ten Oever]

Hi Loup,

Sorry to be late, but I think the approach of Fenwick McKelvey in his most recent book Internet Daemons really ties things nicely together, ranging from institutions, to protocols, hardware, and algorithms. 

https://www.internetdaemons.com/

Best,

Niels

On 5/28/19 1:05 PM, Wifak Gueddana wrote:
> Hi Loup,
> 
> you may be interested in this paper that links infrastructure/platform and
> algorithms published by Prof. Paul N Edwards ' We Have Been Assimilated:
> Some Principles for Thinking About Algorithmic Systems'
> https://www.academia.edu/38274178/We_Have_Been_Assimilated_Some_Principles_for_Thinking_About_Algorithmic_Systems.pdf?auto=download
> 
> Best,
> 
> Wifak
> 
> On Tue, 28 May 2019 at 06:56, Xanat Meza via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Loup,
>> this is an article that ties artificial intelligence with an
>> organizational perspective:
>>
>> https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/11/26/ai-thinks-like-a-corporation-and-thats-worrying?fbclid=IwAR1xQZ99vwmqcLBum9rzq9tizn9rKX16efLFhWn566TUhU60brqj11W1Qv8
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Xanat V. Meza
>>
>> Ph.D. Kansei, Behavioral and Brain SciencesUniversity of Tsukuba
>> M.A. Media and Communication
>> Yeungnam University
>> B.D. Graphic Communication Design
>> Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
>>
>>
>>     El martes, 28 de mayo de 2019 5:51:13 AM GMT+9, Alex Gekker <
>> gekker.alex at gmail.com> escribió:
>>
>>  Hi Loup,
>>
>> While not exactly what you ask for, Plantin et al.'s recent paper
>> incorporates a lot of work on traditional infrastructure and ties it to
>> algorithms:
>>
>> Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and
>> Facebook/ Jean-Christophe Plantin, Carl Lagoze, Paul N Edwards, Christian
>> Sandvig
>> https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444816661553
>>
>> best,
>> Alex.
>>
>> On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 17:21, Loup Cellard <loupcellard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> Anyone can recommend readings helping in conceptualising algorithms as
>>> "old" infrastructures or "living" archives.
>>>
>>> I am studying more particularly large-scale decision-making systems that
>>> relies on "old" infrastructures of the state.
>>> Ex: algorithms used to calculate taxes, the work mobility of civil
>>> servants, allocation of students into schools, etc.
>>>
>>> I am interested about two things :
>>>
>>>    - while algorithms are sometimes defined as innovative and somehow
>> "new"
>>>    they actually relies on "old" infrastructures. (the temporality of
>>>    infrastructures)
>>>    - the infrastructural capacity of the state and the way it maintain an
>>>    opacity on these systems. (the attractiveness and dangers of
>> algorithmic
>>>    transparency)
>>>
>>>
>>> Any recommendation from infrastructure studies ? critical algorithm
>> studies
>>> ? sociology/anthropology of the state and civil services ?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Loup
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> *Loup Cellard*PhD Student - Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
>>> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/>, Warwick University,
>>> Coventry, UK.
>>> <http://www.loupcellard.com>Email : loupcellard at gmail.com
>>> Mobile : +33 7 87 00 84 22
>>> Site Web : loupcellard.com <http://www.loupcellard.com/>
>>> Twitter : @CellardLoup <https://twitter.com/CellardLoup>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
>>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
>>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
>>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
>>>
>>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
>>> http://www.aoir.org/
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
>>
>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
>> http://www.aoir.org/
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
>>
>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
>> http://www.aoir.org/
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Niels ten Oever
Researcher and PhD Candidate
Datactive Research Group
University of Amsterdam

PGP fingerprint	   2458 0B70 5C4A FD8A 9488  
                   643A 0ED8 3F3A 468A C8B3