Hi Loup, While not exactly what you ask for, Plantin et al.'s recent paper incorporates a lot of work on traditional infrastructure and ties it to algorithms: Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook/ Jean-Christophe Plantin, Carl Lagoze, Paul N Edwards, Christian Sandvig https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444816661553 best, Alex. On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 17:21, Loup Cellard <loupcellard@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks,
Anyone can recommend readings helping in conceptualising algorithms as "old" infrastructures or "living" archives.
I am studying more particularly large-scale decision-making systems that relies on "old" infrastructures of the state. Ex: algorithms used to calculate taxes, the work mobility of civil servants, allocation of students into schools, etc.
I am interested about two things :
- while algorithms are sometimes defined as innovative and somehow "new" they actually relies on "old" infrastructures. (the temporality of infrastructures) - the infrastructural capacity of the state and the way it maintain an opacity on these systems. (the attractiveness and dangers of algorithmic transparency)
Any recommendation from infrastructure studies ? critical algorithm studies ? sociology/anthropology of the state and civil services ?
Many thanks,
Loup
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