Big Data & Society· 2016Q1
Algorithms and their others: Algorithmic culture in context
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This paper proposes an analytic framework for understanding how focusing on algorithms shapes our view of digital culture, using Wirth's 'algorithms + data structures = programs' as a starting point.
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Key points
- The paper uses Niklaus Wirth's 1975 formulation 'algorithms + data structures = programs' as a conceptual starting point.
- It investigates how an 'algorithmic lens' impacts the analysis of contemporary digital culture.
- The core question is what is revealed and what is hidden when algorithms are the focus of study.
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Abstract
Algorithms, once obscure objects of technical art, have lately been subject to considerable popular and scholarly scrutiny. What does it mean to adopt the algorithm as an object of analytic attention? What is in view, and out of view, when we focus on the algorithm? Using Niklaus Wirth's 1975 formulation that “algorithms + data structures = programs” as a launching-off point, this paper examines how an algorithmic lens shapes the way in which we might inquire into contemporary digital culture.
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