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Kazansky, Becky, and Stefania Milan. "“Bodies not templates”: Contesting dominant algorithmic imaginaries." New Media & Society 23, no. 2 (2021): 363–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444820929316.

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Through an array of technological solutions and awareness-raising initiatives, civil society mobilizes against an onslaught of surveillance threats. What alternative values, practices, and tactics emerge from the grassroots which point toward other ways of being in the datafied society? Conversing with critical data studies, science and technology studies, and surveillance studies, this article looks at how dominant imaginaries of datafication are reconfigured and responded to by groups of people dealing directly with their harms and risks. Building on practitioner interviews and participant o

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de Vries, Patricia, and Willem Schinkel. "Algorithmic anxiety: Masks and camouflage in artistic imaginaries of facial recognition algorithms." Big Data & Society 6, no. 1 (2019): 205395171985153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053951719851532.

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This paper discusses prominent examples of what we call “algorithmic anxiety” in artworks engaging with algorithms. In particular, we consider the ways in which artists such as Zach Blas, Adam Harvey and Sterling Crispin design artworks to consider and critique the algorithmic normativities that materialize in facial recognition technologies. Many of the artworks we consider center on the face, and use either camouflage technology or forms of masking to counter the surveillance effects of recognition technologies. Analyzing their works, we argue they on the one hand reiterate and reify a moder

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Schwennesen, Nete. "Algorithmic assemblages of care: imaginaries, epistemologies and repair work." Sociology of Health & Illness 41, S1 (2019): 176–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12900.

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Hroch, Miloš, José Moreno, Debashmita Poddar, et al. "Futures of algorithms and choices: Structuration of algorithmic imaginaries and digital platforms in Europe." Central European Journal of Communication 17, no. 35 (2024): 38–60. https://doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.17.1(35).707.

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Wijermars, Mariëlle, and Mykola Makhortykh. "Sociotechnical imaginaries of algorithmic governance in EU policy on online disinformation and FinTech." New Media & Society 24, no. 4 (2022): 942–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448221079033.

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Datafication and the use of algorithmic systems increasingly blur distinctions between policy fields. In the financial sector, for example, algorithms are used in credit scoring, money has become transactional data sought after by large data-driven companies, while financial technologies (FinTech) are emerging as a locus of information warfare. To grasp the context specificity of algorithmic governance and the assumptions on which its evaluation within different domains is based, we comparatively study the sociotechnical imaginaries of algorithmic governance in European Union (EU) policy on on

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Hroch, Miloš, Panos Kompatsiaris, Volker Grassmuck, et al. "Futures of algorithms and choices." Central European Journal of Communication 17, no. 1(35) (2024): 38–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.17.1(35).707.

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The increasing impact of algorithmically driven processes on human societies, which can exacerbate political, economic, and cultural asymmetries, raises questions about reducing human agency by constraining platform structures. We draw on the theoretical concept of algorithmic imaginary, which captures users’ appropriations and ideas of these processes. In this paper, we focus on the dynamics between agency and structure in algorithmic imaginaries regarding the future of digital media platforms in Europe. The paper takes structuration theory as a theoretical starting point and employs methods

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Schellewald, Andreas. "Theorizing “Stories About Algorithms” as a Mechanism in the Formation and Maintenance of Algorithmic Imaginaries." Social Media + Society 8, no. 1 (2022): 205630512210770. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051221077025.

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In this article, I report from an ethnographic investigation into young adult users of the popular short-video app TikTok. More specifically, I discuss their experience of TikTok’s algorithmic content feed, or so-called “For You Page.” Like many other personalized online environments today, the For You Page is marked by the tension of being a mechanism of digital surveillance and affective control, yet also a source of entertainment and pleasure. Focusing on people’s sense-making practices, especially in relation to stories about the TikTok algorithm, the article approaches the discursive repe

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Quispe-Mamani, Edgar, Dante Atilio Salas-Ávila, Tania Paola Torres-Gonzales, et al. "Artificial Intelligence: An Algorithmic Mechanism of Institutionalizing the Social Imaginaries of a Dehumanized Global Society?" Journal of Posthumanism 5, no. 5 (2025): 2013–34. https://doi.org/10.63332/joph.v5i5.1593.

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In the context of the information and network society, with the incorporation of information and communication technologies, one of the most marked and controversial challenges of this last decade has been the growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in contemporary society, generating a series of ethical, social, economic and political dilemmas that deserve to be addressed. Therefore, the objective of the study is to analyze the implications of AI systems in the workplace and in daily social interactions. Applying the methodological approach of qualitative research, based o

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Dahlman, Sara, Sine N. Just, Linea Munk Petersen, Prins Marcus Valiant Lantz, and Nanna Würtz Kristiansen. "Datafied female health: Sociotechnical imaginaries of femtech in Danish public discourse." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 39, no. 74 (2023): 105–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mk.v39i74.133900.

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The digitalization of health promises individual empowerment while raising the threat of collective surveillance. Conceptualizing these threats and promises as sociotechnical imaginaries, we explore how issues of datafied female health are articulated in Danish public discourse. Empirically, we work with a large data set of Danish news media coverage of algorithmic technologies in the past 10 years (2011–2021). We locate coverage of female-oriented health technologies (or femtech) by using the data sprint methodology to track the emergence of such technologies as a topic of public concern. Acr

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Erslev, Malthe Stavning. "A Mimetic Method." A Peer-Reviewed Journal About 11, no. 1 (2022): 34–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v11i1.134305.

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   How does a practice of mimesis — as dramatic enactment in a live-action role-playing game (LARP) — relate to the design of artificial intelligence systems? In this article, I trace the contours of a mimetic method, working through an auto-ethnographic approach in tandem with new materialist theory and in conjunction with recent tendencies in design research to argue that mimesis carries strong potential as a practice through which to encounter, negotiate, and design with artificial intelligence imaginaries. Building on a new materialist conception of mimesis as more-than-h

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Williamson, Ben. "Silicon startup schools: technocracy, algorithmic imaginaries and venture philanthropy in corporate education reform." Critical Studies in Education 59, no. 2 (2016): 218–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2016.1186710.

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Ciofalo, Giovanni, Marco Pedroni, and Francesca Setiffi. "Università italiana, docenti e ChatGPT. La zona grigia tra pratiche lavorative e immaginari." Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali 14, no. 27 (2024): 97–107. https://doi.org/10.36253/cambio-16102.

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The article aims to analyze the results of an exploratory research study conducted in 2023 with Italian academics (N = 64) regarding their work practices and imaginaries related to artificial intelligence, focusing on ChatGPT. The questionnaire and the interpretation of the results consider two perspectives: a) the culture and everyday life of artificial intelligence and 2) artificial communication, algorithmic thinking, platforms, and work practices. Based on the discourse analysis of the responses to open-ended questions collected through a self-administered online questionnaire and the adop

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Anikina, Alexandra. "Procedural Animism." A Peer-Reviewed Journal About 11, no. 1 (2022): 134–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v11i1.134311.

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   The current proliferation of algorithmic agents (bots, virtual assistants, therapeutic chatbots) that boast real or exaggerated use of AI produces a wide range of interactions between them and humans. The ambiguity of various real and perceived agencies that arises in these encounters is usually dismissed in favour of designating them as technologically or socially determined. However, I argue that the ambiguity brought forth by different opacities, complexities and autonomies at work renders the imaginaries of these algorithms a powerful political and cultural tool. Follo

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Kreft, Jan, Barbara Cyrek, and Maciej Śledź. "I know but I Imagine… Algorithmic Stories on the Borderline of Journalism." Comunicar 33, no. 80 (2025): 94–103. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15570622.

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ABSTRACTResearch on algorithmic knowledge has primarily focused on professional users or so-called ordinary people. This segmentation highlights a gap in studying those who fall in between.To fill this gap, we conducted research among journalism students pursuing higher education in journalism who found themselves on the “borderline”: they are no longer “ordinary” users, but are not yet professional specialists. Drawing from latest research we have formulated a theoretical concept of “algorithmic stories on the borderline of journalism”. Through 41 semi-stru

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Marionneau, Ambre, and David Myles. "La prédiction de l’homosexualité à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle : une analyse de trois controverses technoscientifiques." Canadian Journal of Communication 49, no. 3 (2024): 456–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjc-2023-0036.

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Contexte : Les plateformes numériques participent à une reconfiguration des imaginaires liés à la prédiction de l’homosexualité. Analyse : Cet article analyse trois controverses technoscientifiques. La première aborde la prédiction de l’orientation sexuelle des usagers et usagères Facebook sur la base de contenus aimés. La seconde traite d’un dispositif de reconnaissance faciale visant à prédire l’homosexualité. Enfin, la troisième porte sur la capacité présumée des algorithmes de TikTok à influencer l’orientation sexuelle de ses membres. Conclusions et implications : L’analyse des différents

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Üzelgün, Mehmet Ali, Klara Odstrčilová, Iliana Giannouli, Barbara Thomass, Ioanna Archontaki, and Claudia Alvares. "Transforming Toxic Debates towards European Futures: Technological Disruption, Societal Fragmentation, and Enlightenment 2.0." Central European Journal of Communication 17, no. 35 (2024): 82–102. https://doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.17.1(35).711.

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Storms, Elias, Oscar Alvarado, and Luciana Monteiro-Krebs. "'Transparency is Meant for Control' and Vice Versa: Learning from Co-designing and Evaluating Algorithmic News Recommenders." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, CSCW2 (2022): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3555130.

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Algorithmic systems that recommend content often lack transparency about how they come to their suggestions. One area in which recommender systems are increasingly prevalent is online news distribution. In this paper, we explore how a lack of transparency of (news) recommenders can be tackled by involving users in the design of interface elements. In the context of automated decision-making, legislative frameworks such as the GDPR in Europe introduce a specific conception of transparency, granting 'data subjects' specific rights and imposing obligations on service providers. An important relat

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Zhang Han, 张晗, 朱锋 Zhu Feng, 施海亮 Shi Hailiang та ін. "基于最小光谱虚部的星载红外傅里叶变换光谱仪相位校正算法". Acta Optica Sinica 45, № 8 (2025): 0830001. https://doi.org/10.3788/aos241704.

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Levesque, Patrick. "L’élaboration du matériau musical dans les dernières oeuvres vocales de Claude Vivier." Circuit 18, no. 3 (2008): 89–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/019141ar.

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Résumé Les mêmes principes stylistiques animent les cinq dernières oeuvres vocales de Claude Vivier (Lonely Child, Bouchara, Prologue pour un Marco Polo, Wo bist du Licht !, Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire). Le concept de dyade, soit un intervalle formé d’une note de basse et d’une note mélodique, joue un rôle primordial dans l’élaboration du matériau musical. Les mélodies sont construites à partir de bassins de hauteurs d’inspiration diatonique. Généralement soutenus par une note de basse, ils peuvent être décalés par rapport à celle-ci, ou encore varier de façon à créer un univers polyto

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Ionescu, Claudiu Gabriel, and Monica Licu. "Are TikTok Algorithms Influencing Users’ Self-Perceived Identities and Personal Values? A Mini Review." Social Sciences 12, no. 8 (2023): 465. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci12080465.

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The use of TikTok is more widespread now than ever, and it has a big impact on users’ daily lives, with self-perceived identity and personal values being topics of interest in light of the algorithmically curated content. This mini-review summarizes current findings related to the TikTok algorithm, and the impact it has on self-perceived identity, personal values, or related concepts of the Self. We pass through the contents of algorithmic literacy and emphasize its importance along with users’ attitudes toward algorithms. In the first part of our results, we show conceptual models of algorith

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Lally, Nick. "Crowdsourced surveillance and networked data." Security Dialogue 48, no. 1 (2016): 63–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010616664459.

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Possibilities for crowdsourced surveillance have expanded in recent years as data uploaded to social networks can be mined, distributed, assembled, mapped, and analyzed by anyone with an uncensored internet connection. These data points are necessarily fragmented and partial, open to interpretation, and rely on algorithms for retrieval and sorting. Yet despite these limitations, they have been used to produce complex representations of space, subjects, and power relations as internet users attempt to reconstruct and investigate events while they are developing. In this article, I consider one

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Marin, Philippe. "La médiation technologique à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle." SHS Web of Conferences 203 (2024): 01001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202420301001.

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Nous portons dans cet article un regard sur les relations que le concepteur entretient avec son milieu technique, en envisageant le renforcement de la place de l’intelligence artificielle. Il s’agit d’éclairer le rôle des techniques numériques dans les processus de conception. Cela nous permet de formuler des recommandations qui pourraient faciliter l’appropriation inventives des outils et des techniques. L’articulation de la « pensée par le projet » et de la « pensée computationnelle » est envisagée en regardant les modalités de la médiation technologique et en considérant la constitution d’u

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Picaud, Myrtille. "Optimiser grâce aux algorithmes et aux données urbaines ? Promesses, caractéristiques et offre réelle des start-up pour la ville intelligente." Flux N° 133, no. 3 (2023): 9–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/flux1.133.0009.

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La ville dite intelligente a été étudiée à l’aune de ses discours, des grandes firmes qui la portaient et des politiques effectivement menées dans les collectivités. Si les start-up sont régulièrement citées comme des actrices centrales du développement économique de la ville numérique, elles ont pourtant peu été étudiées à cet égard. À distance des imaginaires, quelle est la contribution réelle des start-up à la ville intelligente ? Comment se saisissent-elles des opportunités économiques et techniques liées à la circulation des données urbaines ? Cet article étudie les caractéristiques de ce

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Korableva, E. V. "FREEDOM OF THE INFORMATION SPACE. IS IT A REALITY OR ILLUSION?" Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research, no. 7 (May 29, 2015): 124–29. https://doi.org/10.15802/ampr2015/43690.

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<strong>The purpose:</strong> to define and analyze the limits of freedom and personal fulfillment in the information space in accordance with the change of the vector information and technical characteristics of social development. <strong>Methodology</strong> of scientific cognitive activity allows you to explore new educational requirements, acquisition of new skills, knowledge and new ways of thinking that can provide adequate person entering into a different social environment to change the parameter; identify behavioral change person's standards and valu

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Gandini, Alessandro, Alessandro Gerosa, Luca Giuffrè, and Silvia Keeling. "Subjectivity and algorithmic imaginaries: the algorithmic other." Subjectivity, November 10, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41286-023-00171-w.

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AbstractThe notion of algorithmic imaginaries has been affirmed as an important heuristic to understand the functioning of social media algorithms through the account of users’ individual and collective experiences. Yet, the relationship between algorithmic imaginaries and users’ subjective engagement with social media, considering the personalised circulation of content on these platforms, demands further expansion. To fill this gap, the article introduces the notion of the algorithmic other, conceived as complementary to that of algorithmic imaginaries. Building on small-scale qualitative re

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Chartrand, Alex, and Stefanie Duguay. "Sexual and geocultural algorithmic imaginaries: Examining approaches of participatory resignation among LGBTQ+ Instagrammers in Berlin and Montreal." International Journal of Cultural Studies, August 8, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13678779241267292.

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This study builds on theories of user imaginaries by examining how LGBTQ+ creators in Montreal, Canada and Berlin, Germany respond to perceived algorithmic bias. Through observation and close reading of creators’ Instagram content, the study finds that expectations of discrimination based on sexual and gender identity, embedded in geographical and sociocultural contexts, shape these users’ understandings of threats posed by algorithmic governance. Findings also identified three main responses to perceived algorithmic bias: direct calls for engagement, strategies for eluding algorithmic surveil

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Ricaurte, Paola, Edgar Gómez-Cruz, and Ignacio Siles. "Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism." Big Data & Society 11, no. 1 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20539517241229697.

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Latin America stands as one of the most unequal regions globally, where economic and social crises persist regardless of the ideological leanings of the ruling governments. Many countries in the region grapple with pervasive issues such as corruption, impunity, and a lack of adherence to the rule of law. In this context of generalized crisis, governments have turned to discourses of innovation and technological progress to justify their actions, advocating for the incorporation of automated systems into public administration. Algorithmic governmentality, the government of the social world thro

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Dalpizol Valiati, Vanessa Amália, Ludmila Lupinacci, and Felipe Bonow Soares. "WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND IT: BRAZILIAN USERS’ ALGORITHMIC IMAGINARIES OF SPOTIFY WRAPPED." AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, January 2, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.13924.

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‘Spotify Wrapped’ is a promotional initiative offered by the music platform consisting of a summary of each user’s yearly listening habits. Although Spotify is generally classified as a streaming service, initiatives such as Wrapped have a clear component of sociability (Hagen & Lüders 2017) – in this case, not only because they are based on the harvesting of users’ behavioural data but also because they are created to be shared on platforms such as Instagram and Twitter/X. Indeed, Spotify Wrapped has acquired its own role in digital popular culture, inciting anticipation and excitement fr

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Myles, David, Alex Chartrand, and Stefanie Duguay. "'IF WE LOOK AT IT FROM AN LGBT POINT OF VIEW…’ MOBILIZING LGBTQ+ STAKEHOLDERS TO QUEER ALGORITHMIC IMAGINARIES." AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, December 31, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13467.

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This paper presents the results of an exploratory study that examines the social implications that platform algorithms raise for LGBTQ+ communities. We share the preliminary results of our Phase 2 group interviews, which were conducted with Canadian social media managers of LGBTQ+ non-profit organizations and with Canada-based LGBTQ+ tech workers. Algorithmic controversies relating to LGBTQ+ communities identified in Phase 1 were used as prompts to elicit discussions among participants. In this paper, we pay close attention to how participants queered dominant algorithmic imaginaries. Our prel

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Low, Bronwen, Christian Ehret, and Anita Hagh. "Algorithmic imaginings and critical digital literacy on #BookTok." New Media & Society, October 27, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448231206466.

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Despite the growing impact of algorithms on digital culture, and the importance of algorithmic awareness, little literacy research has investigated how algorithmic awareness and speculation shapes cultural production on digital platforms. Developing Bucher’s concept of the “algorithmic imagination” for digital literacy research, we conduct a study of #BookTok, the home of book-related content on TikTok, the most algorithm-driven social media platform to date. Through a multimodal content analysis of 57 videos containing #algorithm and #BookTok, we propose and explore a typology of five categor

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Guerra, Ana, and Carlos Frederico De Brito d'Andréa. "ALGORITHMIC IMAGINARIES IN THE MAKING: BRAZILIAN UBERTUBERS ENCOUNTERS WITH SURGE PRICING ALGORITHMS." AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, September 15, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12177.

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This paper explores the algorithmic imaginaries associated with Uber's surge pricing, a central mediator of Uber drivers' labor experience. Surge pricing can be described as an algorithmically driven mechanism that uses price adjustments as financial incentives to redistribute the workforce on a territory. Inspired by Critical Algorithm Studies, we argue that this mechanism of governance is not passively incorporated by drivers and that their everyday encounters with surge pricing algorithms are productive of imaginaries and valid forms of knowledge that orient their practices. We approach thi

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Walter, Clarissa Elisa, and Sascha Friesike. "Behind the Screens: How Algorithmic Imaginaries Shape Science Content on Social Media." Journal of Science Communication 24, no. 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.22323/2.24020202.

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Based on an ethnography of the development and production of science YouTube videos – a collaboration between a German public broadcaster and social science scholars – we identify three intermediary steps through which recommendation algorithms shape science content on social media. We argue that algorithms induce changes to science content through the power they exert over the content's visibility on social media platforms. Change is driven by how practitioners interpret algorithms, infer content strategies to enhance visibility, and adjust content creation practices accordingly. By unpacking

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Schinkel, Willem. "Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms." Annual Review of Anthropology 52, no. 1 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-052721-041547.

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Anthropological expeditions seeking out algorithms frequently return empty-handed. They are confronted with the challenge of the object: what to study when studying algorithms? In this article, I draw together a number of literatures to outline one possible answer to the question of how to study algorithms in social science. I argue that what we should study are algorithmic ecologies. I sketch five modalities of algorithmic ecologies and review concomitant literatures: ( a) imaginaries, ( b) infrastructures, ( c) interfaces, ( d) identities, and ( e) investments and interests. The speculative

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Maris, Elena, Robyn Caplan, and Hibby Thach. "Taking back and giving back on TikTok: Algorithmic mutual aid in the platform economy." New Media & Society, March 25, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448241238396.

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This article explores three genres of TikTok content in which creators and users collaborate to re(direct) the value they create on-platform toward specific needs, people, and causes. Drawing from literatures on platform economies, user and creator labor, algorithmic imaginaries and resistance, and mutual aid, we used algorithmic ethnography to identify and define major genres of content, eventually creating a sample of 192 TikTok videos (including comments and metadata) and conducting a thematic analysis. The videos and practices shared the following themes: realizations of on-platform value,

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Esko, Terhi, and Riikka Koulu. "Rethinking research on social harms in an algorithmic context." Justice, Power and Resistance, November 1, 2022, 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/xvwg6748.

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In this paper we suggest that theoretically and methodologically creative interdisciplinary research can benefit the research on social harms in an algorithmic context. We draw on our research on automated decision making within public authorities and the current on-going legislative reform on the use of such in Finland. The paper suggests combining socio-legal studies with science and technology studies (STS) and highlights an organisational learning perspective. It also points to three challenges for researchers. The first challenge is that the visions and imaginaries of technological expect

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Jylhä, Ville, Noora Hirvonen, and Jutta Haider. "Algorithmic recommendations in the everyday life of young people: imaginaries of agency and resources." Information, Communication & Society, February 26, 2025, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2025.2470227.

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Kant, Tanya. "ALGORITHMIC WOMEN’S WORK: THE LABOUR OF NEGOTIATING BLACK-BOXED REPRESENTATION." AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research 2019 (October 31, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2019i0.10994.

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This paper argues that under the proprietary logics of the contemporary web, the ‘algorithmic identities’ (Cheney-Lippold, 2017) created by platforms like Google and Facebook function as value-generating constellations that unequally distribute the burdens of being made in data. The paper focuses on a particular identity demographic: that of the algorithmically inferred 'female', based in the 'UK', 'aged 25-34', and therefore deemed to be interested in 'fertility'. Though other algorithmic profiles certainly exist (and generate their own critical problems), I will use this particular template

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Jones, Corinne. "How to train your algorithm: the struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok." Media, Culture & Society, March 14, 2023, 016344372311595. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01634437231159555.

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Social media users are increasingly aware of the politics of their viewing habits, and they attempt to express these politics through interactions with proprietary algorithms. Combining theories about audience commodities with scholarship about “algorithmic imaginaries,” I define “algorithmically imagined audiences” as a kind of algorithmic imaginary, and I analyze 103 TikTok videos to explore how people attempt to politically engage with algorithms to position themselves within audiences. Although algorithms and audiences are proprietary, TikTokers believe they can reassert public control ove

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Kuai, Joanne. "Navigating the AI Hype: Chinese Journalists’ Algorithmic Imaginaries and Role Perceptions in Reporting Emerging Technologies." Digital Journalism, May 8, 2025, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2502851.

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Hroch, Miloš, and Petr Szczepanik. "Playlisting the periphery: Platform intermediaries and East-Central European music visibility in Spotify’s geography." New Media & Society, June 24, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251346200.

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This article examines Spotify’s engagement with East-Central European (ECE) music markets, exploring how platformization intersects with peripherality. Using insights from the political economy of global media and platform studies, it situates Spotify within the asymmetrical geographies of platform capitalism, where peripheral regions are more consumption markets than cultural centers. While Spotify emphasizes egalitarian access through playlisting and algorithmic tools, the findings reveal persistent inequalities shaped by “spatial gatekeeping.” Focusing on how regional actors, mediating betw

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Lupton, Deborah. "‘Not the Real Me’: Social Imaginaries of Personal Data Profiling." Cultural Sociology, August 6, 2020, 174997552093977. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975520939779.

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In this article, I present findings from my Data Personas study, in which I invited Australian adults to respond to the stimulus of the ‘data persona’ to help them consider personal data profiling and related algorithmic processing of personal digitised information. The literature on social imaginaries is brought together with vital materialism theory, with a focus on identifying the affective forces, relational connections and agential capacities in participants’ imaginaries and experiences concerning data profiling and related practices now and into the future. The participants were aware of

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Raffa, Massimiliano, and Riccardo Pronzato. "The Social Life of an Optimised Song: Reconstructing the Networked Cycle of Digital Music-Making." Popular Music, June 26, 2025, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261143025000273.

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Abstract Music streaming platforms are complex socio-technical infrastructures that co-construct cultural production, distribution, and reception. Different contributions have highlighted that artists, producers, and operators may implement optimisation processes, based on their algorithmic imaginaries, to align their music to the modes of listening and categorisation imposed by algorithmic media. Drawing on thirty-nine semi-structured interviews with producers, songwriters, recording industry professionals, and listeners who are heavy users of streaming platforms, this paper reconstructs the

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Tironi, Martin. "Rehabilitating planetary breathing in times of algorithmic extraction: Notes from the text by Minna Ruckenstein." Dialogues on Digital Society, May 6, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768640251338957.

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This article discusses Minna Ruckenstein's notion of breathing spaces as a critical perspective for rethinking digital futures beyond techno-solutionism. In a context where algorithmic architectures and data extraction increasingly shape behaviours, decisions, and imaginaries, Ruckenstein invites the social sciences and humanities to proactively engage in the design and governance of digital technologies. I analyse three key ideas from her work: breathing, critical making, and the re-humanisation of technologies, while also proposing the need to expand these concepts toward a planetary perspec

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Johnson, Catherine, Matt Hills, and Laurie Dempsey. "An audience studies’ contribution to the discoverability and prominence debate: Seeking UK TV audiences’ ‘routes to content’." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, December 18, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13548565231222605.

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Despite discoverability and prominence emerging as crucial to contemporary industry and policy debates in relation to online and internet-distributed television, there remains relatively little rich, qualitative data about how contemporary audiences discover content. This article addresses this gap through empirical audience research focused on the ‘routes to content’ through which UK audiences find and decide what television to watch. Defining television broadly to include all forms of video content accessed in the home, we argue for the importance of thinking about discoverability as an audi

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Nugent, Selin E. "Darwin in the machine: addressing algorithmic individuation through evolutionary narratives in computing." AI & SOCIETY, April 19, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02310-0.

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Abstract This paper examines the application of evolutionary analogy in AI (artificial intelligence) research, focussing on narratives that perpetuate individuated and autonomous imaginaries of AI systems through biological diction. AI research has long drawn inspiration from evolution to design and predict algorithmic change. Occasionally, these narratives extend inspiration to reimagine AI as a non-human species subject to the same evolutionary pressures as biological organisms. As AI technologies embed more pervasively in public life and require critical perspectives on their social impacts

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Chow, Pei-Sze, and Claudio Celis Bueno. "The cloak of creativity: AI imaginaries and creative labour in media production." European Journal of Cultural Studies, March 13, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494251322991.

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We critique the ways ‘creativity’ is harnessed by artificial intelligence companies, technologists, cultural producers, and even academics to justify a sense of urgency around the adoption of artificial intelligence tools in creative work. The creative industries have seen the rapid deployment of artificial intelligence-powered video generation tools such as Sora and Runway, accompanied by a broad communication and publicity campaign that emphasises artificial intelligence as a co-creative tool that enables human practitioners to ‘boost’ or ‘enhance’ their productivity. These discourses not on

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Baykurt, Burcu, and Alphoncina Lyamuya. "Making up the predictable border: How bureaucracies legitimate data science techniques." New Media & Society, April 1, 2023, 146144482311612. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448231161276.

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This article examines how claims to predictable borders via data science techniques are crafted in bureaucratic institutions. Through a case study of testing algorithmic systems at a transnational agency, we examine how humanitarian organizations reconcile the risks of predictive technologies with the benefits they claim to receive. Drawing on a content analysis of policy documents and interviews with humanitarian technologists, we identify three organizational strategies to justify working toward predictability: constantly seeking novel variables and data, maintaining ambiguity, and shifting

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Eriksson Krutrök, Moa. "Digital Death Humour: Exploring the Role of Humour in Death-Related Content on TikTok." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, March 18, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228251327699.

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This study explores the role of humour in shaping digital death discourses on TikTok. examining how users engage with mortality, the afterlife, and dying in playful yet profound ways. Through an analysis of three content strands--#celebritydeathprank, Heaven Receptionist skits, and mourning-dedicated accounts--it investigates how TikTok's participatory culture enables users to navigate and reframe death through creative and often comedic means. Rather than centering grief, this study highlights how humour serves as a mechanism for engaging with existential themes, fostering communal rememberen

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Belsunces, Andreu. "Sociotechnical Fictions." Science & Technology Studies, April 8, 2025. https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.131333.

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This paper coins and develops the notion of sociotechnical fiction: a type of fiction distinct from literary or cinematic forms, which operates within the technosciences to materialise non-existent, imaginary entities through the production of new technological assemblages. Adopting a performative approach to actor-network theory, the research explores how these fictions mediate the continuum between matter and imagination, and between present and future, through a comparative analysis of related concepts such as future visions, promises, expectations, imaginaries, metaphors, and anticipatory

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Wang, Xinlu, and Shule Cao. "Harnessing the stream: algorithmic imaginary and coping strategies for live-streaming e-commerce entrepreneurs on Douyin." Journal of Chinese Sociology 11, no. 1 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40711-024-00213-z.

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AbstractWhen an algorithm is embedded into the platform economy as a digital infrastructure, it affects the visibility of information, the distribution of interests, and the labor process. In the context of live-streaming e-commerce, entrepreneurs interact with algorithms and consumers in real time to obtain more traffic. Compared with platform users, entrepreneurs are more sensitive to changes in the algorithm when facing great uncertainty in live-streaming and have become “algorithm experts”. This paper focuses on the short video platform Douyin and adopts the methods of field research and i

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