[Air-L] algorithms as infrastructures/archives

[Michael Muller]

   Dear Loup,

   You may be interested in

   Ali Alkhatib and Michael Bernstein (2019), Street-level algorithms: A
   theory of the gaps between policy and decisions. Proc. CHI 2019, paper
   530.

   ... available in the ACM Digital Library, or directly at
   [1]https://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2019/streetlevelalgorithms/str
   eetlevelalgorithms-chi2019.pdf .
   This paper won a well-earned Best Paper award at the CHI conference.

   best,
   --michael
   -----
   Michael Muller, PhD, IBM Research, Cambridge MA USA
   ACM Distinguished Scientist
   ACM SIGCHI Academy
   IBM Master Inventor


     ----- Original message -----
     From: Dave Levine <dave at hearsayculture.com>
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     Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Air-L] algorithms as
     infrastructures/archives
     Date: Mon, May 27, 2019 1:27 PM

   Loup, from my perspective as a law professor, on your second point, I’d
   highly recommend Kroll et al., Accountable Algorithms
   ([2]https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/penn_law_review/vol165/iss3/3/).
   I’ve also written extensively on accountability, transparency, and code
   in the private and public sectors   (see, for example, The People’s
   Trade Secrets
   ([3]https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1571436) and
   Confidentiality Creep and Opportunistic Privacy
   ([4]https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3064257).
   Happy to discuss off-line if you’d like.
   Thanks, Best, Dave
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   Sent from my iPhone. All typos are Apple's fault.
   > On May 27, 2019, at 11:20 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
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   University,
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References

   1. https://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2019/streetlevelalgorithms/streetlevelalgorithms-chi2019.pdf
   2. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/penn_law_review/vol165/iss3/3/
   3. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1571436
   4. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3064257
   5. http://papers.ssrn.com/author=620105
   6. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y9tVrU8AAAAJ&hl=en
   7. http://hearsayculture.com/
   8. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/
   9. http://www.loupcellard.com/
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