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While it is important to interrogate the operational logics of algorithms on an infrastructural level, materiality is only half the story. To do the topic of algorithmic power and politics full justice, there is a need to understand how people make sense of and experience the algorithms with which they persistently interact. Technical systems and infrastructure alone do not afect use. Users’ perceived knowledge of how the systems work might be just as significant. The questions raised in chapter 5 are: How do social media users imagine algorithms, and to what extent does their perception and knowledge afect their use of social media platforms? The chapter reports findings from an exploratory study of 35 social media users who were asked about their perceptions of and experiences with algorithms online. The chapter examines the specific situations in which users notice algorithms and start reflecting and talking about them. Focusing on a few of these user-reported situations, the chapter shows how users respond to and orient themselves diferently toward algorithms as. Moving beyond a call for intensified code literacy, I argue that these personal algorithm stories provide important insight into the ways in which algorithms are currently imagined and understood, and how users negotiate and resist algorithms in their everyday life.\n\nChapter 6 looks at how algorithms acquire the capacity to disturb and to compose new sensibilities as part of situated practices, particularly in terms of how they become invested with certain political and moral capacities. While the previous chapters considered how algorithms are publicly imagined and how they work to produce impressions of engagement, chapter 6 looks at how algorithms materialize in the institutional seting of the news media. More specifically, in this chapter we  continue to consider how algorithms are not just maters of fact but also an important mater of concern (Latour, 2004). By taking the field of journalism as a case in point for understanding the politics and power of algorithms as they are manifested in the current media landscape, I aim to illuminate how algorithms are always diferently materialized—how they are made out and carved into existence at the intersection of technology, institutional practice, and discourse. I make an argument to the efect that the ontology of algorithms is up for grabs. Based on 20 interviews with digital editors and managers at leading Scandinavian news organizations, as well as on field observations at the Swedish news app Omni, chapter 6 explores how institutional actors are responding to the proliferation of data and algorithms. If algorithms have an audience or are otherwise consumed, as previous chapters have highlighted, they are also produced and variously put to work, which is the focus of this chapter. The question is how and when algorithms come to mater and whom they mater for. On the one hand, news organizations feel the pressure to reorient their practices toward the new algorithmic logic governing the media landscape at large, and often with a close eye to what’s perceived as one of their biggest competitors—Facebook. On the other hand, the interview data suggest that algorithms work to disturb and question established boundaries and norms of what journalism is and ought to be. In order to understand the power and politics of algorithms in the contemporary media landscape, my claim is that it is vital to understand how algorithms are neither given nor stable objects, but rather made and unmade in material-discursive practices. Sometimes algorithms are rendered important, at other times, they are deemed insignificant. Knowing more about processes of matering, I suggest, enables us to understand the multiple realities of algorithms, and how these relate and coexist.\n\nProgrammed Sociality\n\n17","previous_page":16,"next_page":18}