ALGORITHM - 2200

COMPUTATIONLISM

idea that human conscious operates like a computer

CRITICAL DATA STUDIES

large data sets making decisions - not neutral

BIG DATA

all about scale

filter out person

can’t be complex

reinforces power imbalance

DATAFICATION

who collects it, how and what is the purpose

ALGORITHM

organizing and acting on data

and opinion embedded in math

correlation not causation

OPINION EMBEDDED IN MATH - O’NEIL

algorithms, despite appearing objective, are actually subjective choices based on human biases, values, and goals

RECURSIVE AND PREDICTIVE - BEER

R: break down problem into small parts to solve big problem

P: solve future problems before they happen

SPURIOUS CORRELAIONS - BEER

might think of algorithms…as providing tailored and individual responses, they are in fact often making judgements about groups and the norms of those groups

ONTOLOGICAL POWER

They act on the world. Animate, order and

sequence and increasingly PREDICT our social

world

DATA SUBJECTS

make certian things invisible, replace humans, rely on survelliance

ALGORITHMIC CULTURE

produce new habits of thought that wouldn’t exist in its absence algori

ALGORITHMIC

connote specific kinds of power

produced or somehow related to a system committed to the work of computations

SOCIAL STRATIFICATION - BENJAMIN

bias enters through the back door

racism is put under layers of denial and then magnified

no way to create something without intention

FACIAL RECOGNITION

targets marginalized individuals

coded inequity makes discrimination even easier

MID - YALCINKAYA

market value

culture is flattened and gamified

overstimulating and numbing

social and capital are inseparable