The social power of algorithms
The social power of algorithms
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DOI：
10.1080/1369118x.2016.1216147
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Beer, David
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作者：
Beer, David
本文探讨了与算法的社会力量相关的问题。这篇文章介绍了同一主题的一个特殊问题，首先反思我们如何从社会科学的角度来看待算法。文章分为两个部分。第一个涉及的问题可能与算法本身的能力分析有关。本节概述了一系列与算法功能相关的问题，以及这些功能如何在社交世界中有效部署。第二部分则着重于算法的概念。在本节中，本文认为，我们需要超越算法本身，作为一种技术和物质的存在，探索算法的概念或概念如何也是其潜在力量的重要特征。在本节中，我们建议我们看看算法的概念是如何被唤起的，作为更广泛的理性和看待世界的方式的一部分。探索算法的概念可以使我们看到算法如何在社会秩序过程中发挥作用，无论是在算法如何被用来促进计算客观性的某些愿景方面，还是在这个概念可能被用来打开的更广泛的政府方面。
This article explores the questions associated with what might be thought of as the social power of algorithms. The article, which introduces a special issue on the same topic, begins by reflecting on how we might approach algorithms from a social scientific perspective. The article is then split into two sections. The first deals with the issues that might be associated with an analysis of the power of the algorithms themselves. This section outlines a series of issues associated with the functionality of the algorithms and how these functions are powerfully deployed within social world. The second section then focuses upon the notion of the algorithm. In this section, the article argues that we need to look beyond the algorithms themselves, as a technical and material presence, to explore how the notion or concept of the algorithm is also an important feature of their potential power. In this section, it is suggested that we look at the way that notions of the algorithm are evoked as a part of broader rationalities and ways of seeing the world. Exploring the notion of the algorithm may enable us to see how algorithms also play a part in social ordering processes, both in terms of how the algorithm is used to promote certain visions of calculative objectivity and also in relation to the wider governmentalities that this concept might be used to open up.