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Democratic Algorithms: Ethnography of a Public Recommender System

Democratic Algorithms: Ethnography of a Public Recommender System

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General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyProgramming

ISBN10: 3957962242
ISBN13: 9783957962249
Publisher: Meson Press Eg
Published: May 24 2024
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Can an algorithm be democratic? And how can we understand algorithms not only as technical, but also as social and political phenomena? Democratic Algorithms offers theoretically and empirically informed perspectives on how we can imagine and design algorithms for a democratic society, and what we even mean by that. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book illustrates how a recommender system was built in a public broadcaster, raising questions not only about organizational and technical implementation, but also about the possible compatibility of such an algorithmic system with democratic constitutions.

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