[Air-L] algorithms as infrastructures/archives

[Dr. S.A. Applin]

Hi,

PolySocial Reality (PoSR) is a conceptual model that encompasses messaging and communications—including algorithms.

You might find something at posr.org

and at posr.org/wiki/publications

-Sally



Sally Applin, Ph.D.
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Research Fellow
HRAF Advanced Research Centres (EU), Canterbury
Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing (CSAC)
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Research Associate
Human Relations Area Files (HRAF)
Yale University
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Associate Editor, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
Member, IoT Council
Executive Board Member: The Edward H. and Rosamond B. Spicer Foundation
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http://www.posr.org
http://www.sally.com
I am based in Silicon Valley
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sally at sally.com | 650.339.5236



> On May 27, 2019, at 8:20 AM, 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.
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