Loup, from my perspective as a law professor, on your second point, I’d highly recommend Kroll et al., Accountable Algorithms (https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/penn_law_review/vol165/iss3/3/). I’ve also written extensively on accountability, transparency, and code in the private and public sectors (see, for example, The People’s Trade Secrets (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1571436) and Confidentiality Creep and Opportunistic Privacy (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3064257). Happy to discuss off-line if you’d like. Thanks, Best, Dave
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On May 27, 2019, at 11:20 AM, 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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