[Air-L] algorithms as infrastructures/archives

[Xanat Meza]

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
>
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>
>
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