Algorithmic Cultures (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Meaning, Performance and New Technologies
Redaktion: Seyfert, Robert; Roberge, Jonathan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The contributions in this book analyze the emergence and subsequent ubiquity of algorithms in various realms of social life. The authors address the complex interrelations between groups and algorithms in the construction of meaning and social interaction, highlighting in particular their performative dimensions by exposing the dialectic processes by which algorithms frame reality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317331810
• Artikelnr.: 46758356

Autorenporträt

Robert Seyfert is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Social Integration" at Universität Konstanz, Germany, and Visiting Full Professor of Comparative Cultural Sociology at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. He recently published in Theory, Culture & Society and European Journal of Social Theory. Jonathan Roberge is Assistant Professor of Cultural and Urban Sociology at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Quebec; he holds the Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture, in addition to being a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What Are Algorithmic Cultures? (Jonathan Roberge / Robert Seyfert)
2. The Algorithmic Choreography of the Impressionable Subject (Lucas D.
Introna
3. #Trendingistrending: When Algorithms Become Culture (Tarleton Gillespie
)
4. Shaping Consumers' Online Voices: Algorithmic Apparatus or Evaluation
Culture? (Jean-Samuel Beuscart / Kevin Mellet)
5. Deconstructing the Algorithm: Four Types of Digital Information
Calculations, (Dominique Cardon)
6. Baffled by an Algorithm: Mediation and the Auditory Relations of
'Immersive Audio' (Joe Klett)
7. Algorhythmic Ecosystems: Neoliberal Couplings and Their Pathogenesis
1960-Present (Shintaro Miyazaki)
8. Drones: The Mobilization of Algorithms, (Valentin Rauer)
9. Social Bots as Algorithmic Pirates and Messengers of
Techno-Environmental Agency, (Oliver Leistert)