1st Edition

Algorithmic Cultures Essays on Meaning, Performance and New Technologies

Edited By Robert Seyfert, Jonathan Roberge Copyright 2016
192 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book provides in-depth and wide-ranging analyses of the emergence, and subsequent ubiquity, of algorithms in diverse realms of social life. The plurality of Algorithmic Cultures emphasizes: 1) algorithms’ increasing importance in the formation of new epistemic and organizational paradigms; and 2) the multifaceted analyses of algorithms across an increasing number of research fields. The... Read more

1. What Are Algorithmic Cultures? (Jonathan Roberge / Robert Seyfert)

2. The Algorithmic Choreography of the Impressionable Subject (Lucas D. Introna

3. #Trendingistrending: When Algorithms Become Culture (Tarleton Gillespie)

4. Shaping Consumers’ Online Voices: Algorithmic Apparatus or Evaluation Culture? (Jean-Samuel Beuscart / Kevin Mellet)

5. Deconstructing the Algorithm: Four Types of Digital Information Calculations, (Dominique Cardon)

6. Baffled by an Algorithm: Mediation and the Auditory Relations of ‘Immersive Audio’ (Joe Klett)

7. Algorhythmic Ecosystems: Neoliberal Couplings and Their Pathogenesis 1960–Present (Shintaro Miyazaki)

8. Drones: The Mobilization of Algorithms, (Valentin Rauer)

9. Social Bots as Algorithmic Pirates and Messengers of Techno-Environmental Agency, (Oliver Leistert)

Biography

Robert Seyfert is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Social Integration" at Universität Konstanz, Germany, and Visiting Full Professor of Comparative Cultural Sociology at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. He recently published in Theory, Culture & Society and European Journal of Social Theory.

Jonathan Roberge is Assistant Professor of Cultural and Urban Sociology at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Quebec; he holds the Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture, in addition to being a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.