Toward an Algorithmic Rhetoric

Ingraham, Chris

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“…A prominent aspect of digital machines’ co-production is exemplified by algorithms, which operate as vital interface between machine and human labour (Finn 2017), as software coordinating the sequence that machine must carry out at different degree of complexity, from linear to retroactive-AI tasks. Generally understood as ‘any set of instructions, with specific steps, that lead to certain results’ (Ingraham 2014: 6) for manipulating data or reasoning through a problem, algorithms constitute a significant step towards the implementation of the earlier mentioned vision of computational ‘universalism’.…”

Section: Digital Machines: Notes On the Current Production Of Abstracmentioning

confidence: 99%

The social production of radical space: Machinic labour struggles against digital spatial abstractions

Briziarelli

Armano

2020

Capital & Class

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In this article, we explore the antagonism between capital and labour from a distinctive spatial and connective perspective: by examining the tension between the production of digital abstract space in the context of machines and computational automation, and the powerful pushbacks of embodied labour struggles of gig-economy workers advancing alternative connective strategies. Our goal is to advance a spatial approach to digital labour practices capable of grasping the dialectical aspects of digital capitalism that are linked to digital and connective technologies. Contextualized within the recent debate on digital capitalism, we focus on a relational and organizational issue concerned with the logic of connection/disconnection, ambivalent connectivity, hybridization of people and technology, and machinic co-productive labour. We illustrate one of those possible alternative directions by examining the radical space generated by organized gig-economy workers. Pushing against the dematerializing force of Digitalized Management Methods, algorithmic management, and digital black boxes, we concentrate on the role played by workers in mediating principles of alternative connectivity against the general tendency of casualization of work in the gig/digital economy.

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Section: Digital Machines: Notes On the Current Production Of Abstracmentioning

confidence: 99%

The social production of radical space: Machinic labour struggles against digital spatial abstractions

Briziarelli

Armano

2020

Capital & Class

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“…Perhaps the most influential scholar for the combined study of rhetoric and code is Bogost (2007), whose concept of procedural rhetoric has articulated a means of inducing action as demonstrated through particular media in order to teach audiences how to use those media; this concept has been expanded on and connected more fully to traditions of rhetoric by Ingraham (2014) and Beck (2016), among others. Procedural rhetoric, according to Bogost, is "the practice of using processes persuasively" (28).…”

Section: From Digital To Proceduralmentioning

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Rhetorical Code Studies

Brock¹

2019

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This project, like so many of the cases discussed in the following pages, could not have been possible without myriad collaborators, colleagues, and mentors, all of whom have profoundly impacted my life through their assistance and friendship. I cannot overstate the gratitude I feel for all the time, energy, and consideration that has been shared with me. At the same time, I recognize my words here will be inadequate in acknowledging everyone who has helped me and in describing the impact they have had on me and this book. I want to begin by offering my deepest thanks to Nancy Penrose, who took a chance on me when I was a struggling master's student who felt ambivalent toward writing and its study. At the time, I did not know just how significantly my life would change by turning my focus toward rhetoric and composition. Without Nancy's support and patience with my gaining a grasp of the field, I would never have been able to pursue this career trajectory. I also owe a considerable debt to the faculty with whom I studied in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media doctoral program at North Carolina State University; their guidance helped me develop the ideas central to my argument throughout this book. David M. Rieder offered invaluable and enthusiastic input throughout my time in the program. Alongside David, Susan Miller-Cochran, Jason Swarts, and Kenneth Zagacki all shared with me their incredible insight and feedback on my dissertation, which served as an early attempt at articulating my argument in this book. In addition, the courses I took with

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“…Cases in point are algorithms that calculate global temperature measurements and drive search engines. These systems significantly impact public arguments about privacy and security, and raise issues about disparities between public and technical agents (Galloway, 2004;Ingraham, 2014;Roundtree, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Great Chain of Being: Manifesto on the Problem of Agency in Science Communication

Johnson

2016

Poroi

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Toward an Algorithmic Rhetoric

Cited by 17 publications

References 12 publications

The social production of radical space: Machinic labour struggles against digital spatial abstractions

The social production of radical space: Machinic labour struggles against digital spatial abstractions

Rhetorical Code Studies

The Great Chain of Being: Manifesto on the Problem of Agency in Science Communication

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