Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon – they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into our political and social system. Algorithms shape human behavior on various levels: they influence not only the aesthetic reception of the world but also the well-being and social interaction of their users. They act and intervene in a political and social context. As algorithms influence individual behavior in these social and political situations, their power should be the subject of critical discourse – or even lead to active disobedience and to the need for appropriate tools and methods which can be used to break the algorithmic power.
Author(s): Sven Quadflieg, Klaus Neuburg, Simon Nestler
Series: Digital Society | Volume 37
Edition: 1
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 381
Tags: Design; Media; Algorithms; Artificial Intelligence; Digital Media; Democracy; Media Philosophy; Media Studies
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Content
(Dis)obeying Algorithms?
Introductory Thoughts on the Power
of Algorithms and the Possible
Necessity of Resisting it
The Dialectics of Dis-Obedience.
Notes from the Crystal Palace
Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence and
Power
Embodied Algorithmic Optimization.
How Our Bodies are Becoming a
Product of Code
The Lock Down City and the Utopian
Program of Open Interfaces
Hacking Google Maps
The Algorithmic Construction of
Space
Torn Between Autonomy and Algorithmic
Management.
(Dis)Obedience of Solo Self-Employed
Working via Digital Platforms
A Crack in the Algorithm’s Facade.
A Fundamental Rights Perspective on
“Efficiency” and “Neutrality” Narratives of
Algorithms
When Search Engines Discriminate.
The Posthuman Mimesis of Gender Bias
Discrimination by Correlation.
Towards Eliminating Algorithmic Biases
and Achieving Gender Equality
The Power of Algorithms and the
Structural Transformation of the Digital
Public
Reclaim your Face and the Streets.
Why Facial Recognition, and Other
Biometric Surveillance Technology in
Public Spaces, Should be Banned
Identity 5.0: How to Fight Algorithms
Online (Fast).
Heuristic Compressions of Personality
Concepts (Dis)Obedient to Algorithmic
Power—from Film, Television and a Cult
Classic Novel
About the Authors
