Towards a Popular Theory of Algorithms
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Μορφή: | artículo original |
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: | 2022 |
Περιγραφή: | This paper establishes dialogues between theories on the popular and critical studies on algorithms and datafication. In doing so, it contributes to reversing the analytical tendency to assume that algorithms have universal effects and that conclusions about “algorithmic power” in the Global North apply unproblematically everywhere else. We begin by clarifying how Latin American scholars and other research traditions have theorized the popular (“lo popular”). We then develop four dimensions of lo popular to implement these ideas in the case of algorithms: playful cultural practices, imagination, resistance, and “in-betweenness.” We argue that this dialogue can generate different ways of thinking about the problems inherent to algorithmic mediation by drawing attention to the remixes of cultural practices, imaginative solutions to everyday problems, “cyborg” forms of resistance, and ambiguous forms of agency that are central to the operations of algorithmic assemblages nowadays. |
Χώρα: | Kérwá |
Ίδρυμα: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
Repositorio: | Kérwá |
Γλώσσα: | Inglés |
OAI Identifier: | oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/87039 |
Διαθέσιμο Online: | https://hdl.handle.net/10669/87039 |
Λέξη-Κλειδί : | Agency ALGORITHMS Datafication Decolonial theory GLOBAL SOUTH LATIN AMERICA MASS CULTURE |