[Air-L] algorithms as infrastructures/archives

[Alex Gekker]

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
>
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>
>
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