Gaming: Essays On Algorithmic Culture

By Alexander R. Galloway. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Thinking critically about and researching algorithms (2014, background): “…are not simply playing or working in conjunction with the algorithm, rather they are ‘ learning, internalizing, and becoming intimate with ’ it (Galloway, 2006, p. 90); how they behave is subtly reshaped through the engagement, but at the same time what the algorithm does is conditional on the…”
The freelance translation machine: Algorithmic culture and the invisible industry (2013, background): “(Galloway, 2006: 90–91).”
When the algorithm itself is a racist: Diagnosing ethical harm in the basic Components of Software (2016, background): “…an important concept in the public mind (Sandvig, 2014; Striphas, 2015), it seems reasonable that scholars of algorithmic culture (a term coined by Galloway, 2006) might study the consequences of the addition of computing to these media and information systems without needing to know the…”
Algorithmic culture (2015, background): “This is the phenomenon I am calling, following Alexander R Galloway (2006), ‘algorithmic culture’.”
Recommended for you: The Netflix Prize and the production of algorithmic culture (2016, background): “…to it as “algorithmic culture”: provisionally, the use of computational processes to sort, classify, and hierarchize people, places, objects, and ideas, and also the habits of thought, conduct, and expression that arise in relationship to those processes (Striphas, 2012; see also Galloway, 2006).”
Service Innovation in the Digital Age: Key Contributions and Future Directions (2015, background): “Building on the insights of Galloway (2006), Zysman (2006), Callon and Muniesa (2005), and others, they argue that ranking and sorting algorithms impose a temporary ordering on information that requires “the items being compared are commensurable, standardized with stable and defined properties…”