If … Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics

By J. Sinclair. Journal of Communications, 2019

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The Society of Algorithms (2021, background): “Digital firms meticulously program sociality so as to yield maximum economic benefit (Bucher 2018).”
Review of "Algorithms of oppression: how search engines reinforce racism," by Noble, S. U. (2018). New York, New York: NYU Press. (2019, background): “Two books that connect well with Noble’s are Gillespie’s Custodians of the Internet (2018), which explores the problems and complexities of platforms and moderation, and Bucher’s If...Then... (2018), which ranges from individual to Internet-wide information control, algorithms, and media choice.”
Challenges and Future Directions of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Education (2020, background): “Inevitably, the current learning cultures, learning experiences, and classroom dynamics are changing as “we live algorithmic lives” (Bucher, 2018).”
Rawls, Information Technology, and the Sociotechnical Bases of Self-Respect (2020, background): “Today, these problems are amplified by often opaque automated or algorithmic processes (see Cheney-Lippold 2011; Bucher 2018).”
Terms of inclusion: Data, discourse, violence (2020, unknown): “The landscape is further complicated by data processed algorithmically—that is, through processes and procedures of software that turn data inputs into particular outputs (Bucher, 2018; Gillespie, 2014).”