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Algorithmic culture

Abstract (European Journal of Cultural Studies): Over the last 30 years or so, human beings have been delegating the work of culture – the sorting, classifying and hierarchizing of people, places, objects and ideas – increasingly to computational processes. Such a shift significantly alters how the category culture has long been practiced, experienced and understood, giving rise to what, following Alexander Galloway, I am calling ‘algorithmic culture’. The purpose of this essay is to trace some of the conceptual conditions out of which algorithmic culture has emerged and, in doing so, to offer a preliminary treatment on what it is. In the vein of Raymond Williams’ Keywords, I single out three terms whose bearing on the meaning of the word culture seems to have been unusually strong during the period in question: information, crowd and algorithm. My claim is that the offloading of cultural work onto computers, databases and other types of digital technologies has prompted a reshuffling of some of the words most closely associated with culture, giving rise to new senses of the term that may be experientially available but have yet to be well named, documented or recorded. This essay, though largely historical, concludes by connecting the dots critically to the present day. What is at stake in algorithmic culture is the gradual abandonment of culture’s publicness and the emergence of a strange new breed of elite culture purporting to be its opposite.

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Le medium algorithmique

Résumé (Sociétés): La société datacentrique qui prend forme aujourd’hui, supportée par le médium algorithmique et par la diffusion massive de données échangées via les réseaux, n’en est qu’à son commencement. La révolution algorithmique est annoncée et c’est dans ce cadre que l’IEML (ou tout autre système de codage de la signification linguistique) compte démocratiser à la fois la catégorisation et l’analyse automatique de ces flux de données. Son usage sera un moyen pour l’apprentissage collaboratif et pour la production de connaissances massivement distribuée.

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La pyramide algorithmique

Résumé (Sens Public): Le medium algorithmique est une infrastructure de communication qui augmente les pouvoirs des médias antérieurs en y ajoutant la mécanisation des opérations symboliques. Son émergence au milieu du vingtième siècle résulte d’une longue histoire scientifique et technique que je résume au début de l’article. Je rappelle ensuite les grandes étapes de son développement (ordinateurs centraux, internet et PC, Web social, Cloud augmenté par l’intelligence artificielle et la chaîne de blocs) ainsi que leurs conséquences sociocognitives. J’évoque pour finir les développements futurs de ce médium dans la perspective d’une intelligence collective réflexive basée sur une nouvelle forme de calcul sémantique.

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A relevância dos algoritmos

Resumo (Revista Parágrafo): Algoritmos (particularmente aqueles utilizados pelos mecanismos de busca, plataformas de mídia social, sistemas de recomendação e bases de dados) exercem uma função crescentemente importante em selecionar qual informação deve ser considerada mais relevante para nós, uma característica crucial da nossa participação na vida pública. À medida que assumimos as ferramentas computacionais como nossa forma primária de expressão, sujeitamos discurso e conhecimento humanos às lógicas de procedimento que sustentam a computação. Precisamos questionar os algoritmos como elementos chave de nosso sistema informacional e das formas culturais que emergem de suas sombras. Devemos ter especial atenção sobre onde e de que forma a introdução dos algoritmos nas práticas do conhecimento humano podem levar a ramificações políticas. Este artigo oferece um mapa conceitual para fazer isso. Ele propõe uma análise sociológica que não concebe os algoritmos como algo abstrato ou façanha técnica, e sim sugere como revelar as escolhas humanas e institucionais que estão por trás de suas elaborações. O objetivo é verificar como os algoritmos são convocados, recrutados e negociados como parte de esforços coletivos para conhecer e se tornar conhecido.

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Democracy and the Internet

Part of celebrating democracy is questioning what influences it. In this episode of IRL, we look at how the internet influences us, our votes, and our systems of government. Is democracy in trouble? Are democratic elections and the internet incompatible? Politico's Mark Scott takes us into Facebook's European Union election war room. Karina Gould, Canada's Minister for Democratic Institutions, explains why they passed a law governing online political ads. The ACLU's Ben Wizner says our online electoral integrity problem goes well beyond a few bad ads. The team at Stop Fake describes a massive problem that Ukraine faces in telling political news fact from fiction, as well as how they're tackling it. And NYU professor Eric Klinenberg explains how a little bit of offline conversation goes a long way to inoculate an electorate against election interference. IRL is an original podcast from Firefox. For more on the series go to irlpodcast.org. Early on in this episode, we comment about how more privacy online means more democracy offline. Here's more on that concept from Michaela Smiley at Firefox. Have a read through Mark Scott's Politico reporting on Facebook's European election war room. For more from Eric Klinenberg, check out his book, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life. And, find out more about Stop Fake, its history, and its mission here.

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As implicações do design na política em um contexto digital: a participação social intermediada por plataformas digitais

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