On Studying Algorithms Ethnographically: Making Sense of Objects of Ignorance
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...One of the few ethnographers to study algorithms explicitly, Seaver delineates several “tactics” for “making algorithms ethnographically tractable” (Seaver 2017, p. 7; see also Lange et al. 2018)....
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...Here we need to do justice to Latour (2005), who wrote in his later book Reassembling the social …: This is the reason why I have abandoned most of the geometrical metaphor about the ‘principle of symmetry’ when I realized that readers concluded from it that nature and society had to be ‘maintained…...
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...…as ethnographic objects: one that we argue indicates a shift from more traditional forms of organizational ethnography Recently, it has been suggested that multi-sited ethnography, a method identified by Marcus (1995) might offer a better approach to algorithmic organizations (Seyfert, 2016)....
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...Approaches, following classic sociology (Weber, 1978: 121), would understand algorithms as another instrument of human agency (Reichertz, 2013)....
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...One of the main concerns to date rests with the notion that black-boxed algorithms (Little-Gill, 2005; Pasquale, 2015; Rosen, 2009) have triggered an empirical shift from traders being in control of their financial devices to a situation in which those same devices are now more or less controlling…...
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