Democratic Algorithms: Ethnography of a Public Recommender System
<p>Can an algorithm be democratic? And how can we understand algorithms not only as technical, but also as social and political phenomena? <em>Democratic Algorithms</em> offers theoretically and empirically informed perspectives on how we can imagine and design algorithms for a democratic society, and what we even mean by that. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book illustrates how a recommender system was built in a public broadcaster, raising questions not only about organizational and technical implementation, but also about the possible compatibility of such an algorithmic system with democratic constitutions.</p>
Authors: Nikolaus Poechhacker
Designer: Torsten Köchlin, Silke Krieg
Copy Editor: Marc Weingart, Hugh Schmidt
Part of: meson press
ISBN: 9783957962256