McCormack, Derek P., 99–100
McGoey, Linsey, 56–57
machine-learning algorithms, 20, 23–28, 32, 35–36, 53, 95, 97, 116, 156, 157 deep learning, 25, 27 facial recognition, 26–27 feature extraction, 25 models, 24–25 problematic results, 27–28 strategic unknowns, as, 56–58 supervised/semi-supervised learning, 24, 25–26
Mackenzie, Adrian, 14, 24, 26, 29, 30, 61, 67, 68, 87, 88, 90, 142
“making up people,” 9–10, 32
material-discursive practices, 120, 125, 126, 147, 151
materiality, 8, 17, 30, 68, 69, 72, 90, 120, 121, 125, 158 see also relational materialism; sociomateriality
matering, 18, 55, 120–21, 122, 125, 146, 147
media, 1, 29 see also algorithmic power and politics; news media; social media
media studies, 15, 68
memories, 103–4
Menlo Park (Facebook HQ), 70
mental models, 96–97, 115
methodological tactics, 15, 16, 42, 59–64, 151
Meyer, Philip, Precision Journalism, 122, 123
Michael, Mike, 49, 58
micropolitics, 94, 116
Microsoft, 152
misidentifications, 102–3, 115
Mol, Annemarie, 3, 15–16, 19, 39, 49, 56, 121, 151
Moses, Robert, 23, 35
multiplicity of algorithms, 19–20, 27, 39, 42, 48 power of algorithms, 32–38 see also algorithmic power and politics social concerns, 29–32 targeting the algorithm, 38–40
music-streaming, 54
naive Bayes classifier, 26, 61
Narrative Science, 124
Naughton, John, 52–53
nearest neighbour algorithm, 27
negative knowledge, 46–47, 59
Netflix, 2, 31, 47, 48, 62, 99, 108
recommender system, 47–48, 105
“taggers,” 53
neural networks, 27, 59
New York Times, 53, 70, 77
news feed algorithms, 2, 3, 72–74 see also Facebook news feed
news media, 6, 17–18, 55, 114, 118, 120–24, 150, 158 see also fake news; journalism; Scandinavian news media computerization and digitization, 120, 122–24
newsworthiness, 26, 53
nonknowledge, 46, 47, 61–62
Norwegian news media, 124, 125, 131, 133, 138 see also Aftenposten; Scandinavian news media
OKCupid, 105 OKCupid, 105
Omni, 18, 125, 133–34, 136–38, 139, 140, 145–46
ontological politics, 3, 16, 18, 39–40, 56, 120, 146, 148, 151, 157–58
ontology of software see under software
operational logics, 12, 17, 21, 60–61, 63, 105, 109, 110, 112, 113, 144 Facebook algorithm, 77, 92
Oremus, Will, 48, 53, 78
orientations, 3, 8, 31, 127, 154–57
page generation algorithm, 47–48
PageRank, 39
Panopticon, 74, 82–84, 85, 92
Papacharissi, Zizi, 98, 99, 115
participatory subjectivity, 17, 88–90, 92, 155
Pasquale, Frank, The Black Box Society, 29, 34–35, 41–42, 45
patern recognition, 25, 57
performativity, 1, 4, 28, 31, 38, 50
personal algorithm stories see encounters with algorithms
personalization, 47, 105, 108–9, 127, 128, 129 see also under journalism
personalized video ranker (PVR), 47
pharmacological objects, 146
phenomenological approach, 61–63, 151
plagiarism algorithms, 37
playful learning, 62, 112–13
Polaris Media, 125, 128, 140
politics, 3, 67 see also algorithmic power and politics; ontological politics
Politiken, 125, 131, 139, 143
popularity, 2, 89–90, 100, 105–9
post-ANT, 49
post-truth, 118, 147
power, 16, 72–73, 153, 155 see also algorithmic power and politics; disciplinary power concepts of, 33, 116–17 see also under Foucault, Michel
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