Algorithms, contexts, governance: An introduction to the special issue

Gritsenko, Daria; Markham, Annette N.; Pötzsch, Holger; Wijermars, Mariëlle

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“…In other words, to understand the social consequences of pervasive algorithmic systems, we must consider them not only as socio-technical assemblages but also remember that personal representations of the role and mechanics of algorithms are “no less important than what the algorithms actually do in technical terms” (Gritsenko et al, 2022, p. 835). It is in this regard that Bucher (2017) talks about “algorithmic imaginaries”: ways “in which people imagine, perceive and experience algorithms.” People act in accordance with self-created mental models, or “folk theories of algorithmic operations” (Dogruel, 2021).…”

Section: The Specter Of Transparency and The Agency Of Nonhumansmentioning

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Brushing Society Against the Grain: Digital Footprints, Scraps, Non-Human Acts, Crumbs, and Other Traces

Comunello

Martire

Sabetta

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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This article explores the growing role of traces and footprints in social science, giving an outline of the main concepts and empirical questions discussed in this special issue. Remarkably, the study of traces (unobtrusive, necessarily interpretative, theory-driven and data-fueled at the same time) considers them as unwillingly insightful and strategic materials. However, the difference between information “intentionally transmitted” and information “accidentally leaked” gets fuzzy especially in online communication and social network. In this sense, by interpreting the “digital data deluge” as a social trace deluge, issues of algorithmic environments, users’ participation, datafied biases, and transparency are addressed. Finally, it is argued that traces, data exhaust, and residual information help overcoming standard dichotomies in social science (e.g., human vs. non-human realms, quantitative vs. qualitative, online vs. offline activities), both methodologically and theoretically.

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Section: The Specter Of Transparency and The Agency Of Nonhumansmentioning

confidence: 99%

Brushing Society Against the Grain: Digital Footprints, Scraps, Non-Human Acts, Crumbs, and Other Traces

Comunello

Martire

Sabetta

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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Digital qualitative research workflows: a reflexivity framework for technological consequences

Paulus

Lester

2023

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

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Unravelling Copyright Dilemma of AI-Generated News and Its Implications for the Institution of Journalism: The Cases of US, EU, and China

Kuai

2024

New Media & Society

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This study adopts a multiple-case study design to address ‘Does copyright law protect automated news, and if so, how’ in three jurisdictions: the United States, the European Union and China. Through doctrinal legal analysis of the copyright laws and document analysis of policy reports, corporate responses and other empirical evidence, this study has found that the three copyright regimes differ substantively with regard to both formal texts and informal enforcement of copyright claims to artificial intelligence (AI)-generated news. In the United States, there has been a policy silence. In the European Union (EU), eager regulators have rushed to enact premature laws and failed policy patchwork. In China, the state is instrumentalising both laws and journalism to further its own interests. These findings suggest that current regulatory frameworks in all cases have led to a weakening of the institution of copyright, which, in turn, has contributed to the deinstitutionalisation of journalism and the institutionalisation of algorithms.

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Algorithms, contexts, governance: An introduction to the special issue

Abstract: This introduction to the special issue on algorithmic governance in context offers an outline of the field and summarizes each contribution to the issue.

Cited by 3 publications

References 24 publications

Brushing Society Against the Grain: Digital Footprints, Scraps, Non-Human Acts, Crumbs, and Other Traces

Brushing Society Against the Grain: Digital Footprints, Scraps, Non-Human Acts, Crumbs, and Other Traces

Digital qualitative research workflows: a reflexivity framework for technological consequences

Unravelling Copyright Dilemma of AI-Generated News and Its Implications for the Institution of Journalism: The Cases of US, EU, and China

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