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Editorial: Critical data and algorithm studies [PDF]
Frontiers in Big Data, 2023 The abstract is available here: https://uscholar.univie.ac.at/o ...
Katja Mayer, Jürgen Pfeffer
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Bridging the gap between critical algorithm studies and the social sciences
Informaatiotutkimus, 2021 Since the mid-2000s platforms and platform work have greatly proliferated. Although also research on platforms and platforms has expanded, there seems to be a great gulf between IT- and social research on these issues.
Paul Jonker-Hoffrén
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An Algorithmic Approach for Identifying Critical Distance Relays for Transient Stability Studies [PDF]
IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, 2021 After major disturbances, power system behavior is governed by the dynamic characteristics of its assets and protection schemes. Therefore, modeling protection devices is essential for performing accurate stability studies.
Ramin Vakili +4 more
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Big Data & Society, 2019 In recent years, many qualitative sociologists, anthropologists, and social theorists have critiqued the use of algorithms and other automated processes involved in data science on both epistemological and political grounds.
David Moats, Nick Seaver
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Dynamics of Social Harms in an Algorithmic Context
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2022 Growing evidence suggests that the affordances of algorithms can reproduce socially embedded bias and discrimination, increase the information asymmetry and power imbalances in socio‑economic relations.
Hanna Maria Malik +3 more
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Assessing Creditworthiness in the Age of Big Data
Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2021 The purpose of this article is twofold: first, we show how algorithms have become increasingly central to financial credit scoring; second, we draw on this to further develop the anthropological study of algorithmic governance.
Pernille Hohnen +2 more
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Facebook’s Dark Pattern Design, Public Relations and Internal Work Culture
Journal of Digital Media & Interaction, 2022 Facebook inc. (now Meta Platforms) has been a target of several accusations regarding privacy issues, dark pattern design, spreading of disinformation and polarizing its users. Based on several leaked documents, the company’s public relations have often
Pekka Kallioniemi
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Predictive Algorithms in Justice Systems and the Limits of Tech-Reformism
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2022 Data-driven digital technologies are playing a pivotal role in shaping the global landscape of criminal justice across several jurisdictions. Predictive algorithms, in particular, now inform decision making at almost all levels of the criminal justice ...
Pam Ugwudike
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Staying with the trouble of networks
Frontiers in Big Data, 2023 Networks have risen to prominence as intellectual technologies and graphical representations, not only in science, but also in journalism, activism, policy, and online visual cultures. Inspired by approaches taking trouble as occasion to (re)consider and
Daniela van Geenen +7 more
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The Role of Human Curation at the Age of Algorithms
Journal of Digital Media & Interaction, 2021 The increasing amount of information online is exceeding our ability to process it, and content burden, or infobesity, is clearly a problem that needs to be resolved. This problem has been mostly addressed by using algorithm-based recommendation systems,
Pekka Kallioniemi
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