Digital Platforms: Algorithmic Personalisation, Agency, New and Old Intermediaries

This event brings together three leading analysts working in internet studies, to present and discuss research on key issues and problems surrounding digital media in the twenty-first century

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A project in association with the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS)

Algorithmic Regimes

Algorithms have risen to become one, if not the central technology for producing, circulating, and evaluating knowledge in multiple societal arenas. In this book, scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and computer science argue that this shift has, and will continue to have, profound implications for how knowledge is produced and what and whose knowledge is valued and deemed valid. To attend to this fundamental change, the authors propose the concept of algorithmic regimes and demonstrate how they transform the epistemological, methodological, and political foundations of knowledge production, sensemaking, and decision-making in contemporary societies. Across sixteen chapters, the volume offers a diverse collection of contributions along three perspectives on algorithmic regimes: the methods necessary to research and design algorithmic regimes, the ways in which algorithmic regimes reconfigure sociotechnical interactions, and the politics engrained in algorithmic regimes.

P142: Datafied Publics

This panel focuses on datafied publics: groups that politically mobilise because they are subject to commercial and government data systems that algorithmically govern them but remain opaque. The panel will give datafication in public participation renewed theoretical-empirical attention.

Conference: Shifting AI Controversies – HIIG

This conference will be centered around prompts, provocations & problematisations for society-centered AI.

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