Algorithms and their others: Algorithmic culture in context

Algorithms, once obscure objects of technical art, have lately been subject to considerable popular and scholarly scrutiny. What does it mean to adopt the algorithm as an object of analytic attention? What is in view, and out of view, when we focus on the algorithm? Using Niklaus Wirth's 1975 f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paul Dourish
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-08-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716665128