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New book "Algorithmic Regimes. Methods, Interactions, and Politics"
Co-edited by Juliane Jarke, Bianca Prietl, Simon Egbert, Yana Boeva, Hendrik Heuer and Maike Arnold
- Book https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463728485/algorithmic-regimes
- E-book https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048556908/algorithmic-regimes
- JSOR link https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.11895528
Algorithms have risen to become one, if not the central technology for producing, circulating, and evaluating knowledge in multiple societal arenas. In this book, scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and computer science argue that this shift has, and will continue to have, profound implications for how knowledge is produced and what and whose knowledge is valued and deemed valid. To attend to this fundamental change, the authors propose the concept of algorithmic regimes and demonstrate how they transform the epistemological, methodological, and political foundations of knowledge production, sensemaking, and decision-making in contemporary societies. Across sixteen chapters, the volume offers a diverse collection of contributions along three perspectives on algorithmic regimes: the methods necessary to research and design algorithmic regimes, the ways in which algorithmic regimes reconfigure sociotechnical interactions, and the politics engrained in algorithmic regimes.
Co-edited by Bianca Prietl, this book also includes the chapter «The Politics of Data Science. Institutionalizing Algorithmic Regimes of Knowledge Production» by Bianca Prietl and Stefanie Raible.