Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism

Ekbia, Hamid R.; Nardi, Bonnie

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“…They emphasize how computational control of organization leads to a proceduralization, where bureaucratic supervision and legal rules are translated by sheer code in a kind of 'algocracy' (Aneesh, 2009). Furthermore, with interaction enabling algorithms to learn and for a kind of machine learning to be developed, robots and artificial intelligence are promising to replace human organization and labour, even if more realistically this will result in a kind of 'bounded automation' (Fleming, 2019) or 'heteromation' (Ekbia and Nardi, 2017).…”

Section: Media Organizementioning

confidence: 99%

The organizational powers of (digital) media

Beverungen¹,

Beyes²,

Conrad

2019

Organization

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Digital media are pervasive, ubiquitous and mundane constituents of organization. Organized life relies on, and is propelled by, technologies that store, transmit and process data and are based on networked computation. How can we understand and explore the fundamental mediatedness of organization? This article contextualizes and introduces the special issue on 'The organizational powers of (digital) media' by staging an encounter between organization theory and media theory. In provoking investigations of the power and effects of technological mediation in its many guises, not least in regard to digital or computational media, this encounter ushers in a 'medial thought' of organization.

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Section: Media Organizementioning

confidence: 99%

The organizational powers of (digital) media

Beverungen¹,

Beyes²,

Conrad

2019

Organization

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“…And while I have focused here on engineers like Brad, they are by no means the only people hidden within supposedly automatic systems. Scholars like Lilly Irani (2015), Sarah T. Roberts (2016), Hamid Ekbia and Bonnie Nardi (2017), and Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri (2017) point our attention to the underpaid and overworked people whose labor powers so‐called machine vision or the content moderators who keep obscene content out of our social media feeds. Being human within the machine is not a pleasurable or powerful experience for many of the people thus involved.…”

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What Should an Anthropology of Algorithms Do?

Seaver¹

2018

Cult. Anthropol.

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“…Algorithms are also taking responsibility for other putatively cultural social functions, with the curation of taste (Seaver, forthcoming), the production of news media (Carlson 2015), medical diagnosis (Soni et al 2011), scientific discovery (Leonelli 2016), and pedagogical supervision (Williamson 2015) also all undergoing various forms of automation. Certainly, many of these systems keep humans in the loop, leading Ekbia and Nardi (2017) to argue elsewhere that the current trend ought to be labeled heteromation , rather than automation proper (cf. LaFlamme 2018).…”

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Algorithms and Automation: An Introduction

Lowrie¹

2018

Cult. Anthropol.

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Our world is densely populated by ubiquitous processors, capacious storage, and vigilant sensors. Networks of such machines are constantly measuring, packaging, storing, circulating, and operating on the world. They are busy assembling and being assembled, sharing information, and distributing their processing loads as they make decisions and enact plans. At the same time, they are refusing connections, maintaining their immune systems, performing network security, managing their boundaries, and controlling access. Human bodies move among this flexible, securitized meshwork of silicon, electricity, code, fiber optics, and data: building, maintaining, and restructuring. Their activity ensures that aesthetic, epistemological, economic, and political structures are thoroughly woven into these computational networks, tightly coupling the technical to the social as they experiment with new forms of work and life. Yet many of those who are building these systems do not seem particularly concerned with ensuring that our computational futures remain within the control, or even comprehension, of fleshy and cultural human beings. On the contrary: as they craft and maintain the

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Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism

Abstract: A rigorous theory of money, credit, and bankruptcy in the context of a mixed economy, uniting Walrasian general equilibrium with macroeconomic dynamics and Schumpeterian innovation.

Cited by 174 publications

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The organizational powers of (digital) media

The organizational powers of (digital) media

What Should an Anthropology of Algorithms Do?

Algorithms and Automation: An Introduction

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