[Air-L] algorithms as infrastructures/archives

[Wifak Gueddana]

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.
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Wifak Gueddana
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Digital Humanities, Kings College London
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