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Democratic Algorithms: Ethnography of a Public Recommender System.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Poechhacker, Nikolaus, Author.
Contributor:
Köchlin, Torsten, Contributor.
Krieg, Silke, Contributor.
Schmidt, Hugh, Editor.
Weingart, Marc, Editor.
Library Stack, distributor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Algorithms.
Democracy.
Political science.
Genre:
Discursive works
Critical Writing.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Place of Publication:
[Place of publication not identified], Meson Press, 2024.
Summary:
"Can an algorithm be democratic? And how can we understand algorithms not only as technical, but also as social and political phenomena? Democratic Algorithms 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."-- provided by distributor.
Notes:
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CC BY-SA.
Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
Access Restriction:
Unrestricted online access

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