Publication: Recommender Systems beyond the Filter B...
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Title: | Recommender Systems beyond the Filter Bubble |
Subtitle: | Algorithmic Media and the Fabrication of Publics |
Abstract: | The increasing use of recommender systems reorganizes the dissemination of information and can be understood as an algorithmic regime with the potential to splinter the public sphere (Pariser, 2011; Sunstein, 2009). This creates, so the popular narrative goes, an issue for democratic discourse. Yet, this narrative ignores how the audience is always a constructed one (Ang, 1991). Drawing from Dewey’s concept of “issue publics,” we argue that different algorithmic techniques (Rieder, 2017) for recommendations impact the construction of publics by mediating practices within an algorithmic regime. Analysing how algorithmic techniques are embedded in and mediate between databases, interfaces, and practices sensitizes us to the formation of digital publics. This opens up perspectives for rethinking algorithmic regimes of information distribution for democratic societies. |
Keywords: | Algorithms; Democracy; Dewey |
Publication type: | Article in compilation (Authorship) |
Publication date: | 26.02.2024 (Print) |
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Algorithmic Regimes: Methods, Interactions, and Politics
Algorithmic Regimes: Methods, Interactions, and Politics
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Amsterdam University Press;
J. Jarke, B. Prietl, S. Egbert, H. Heuer, M. Arnold
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First publication: | Yes |
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Page: | pp. 207 - 228 |
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Publication date: | 26.02.2024 |
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Homepage: | https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463728485/algorithmic-regimes |
Publication date: | 26.02.2024 |
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DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.11895528.12 |
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Authors
Nikolaus Helge Pöchhacker (internal) |
Marcus Burkhardt (external) |
Jan-Hendrik Passoth (external) |
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Universität Klagenfurt
Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC) Humanwissenschaft des Digitalen
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AT - A-9020 Klagenfurt |
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Universität Siegen
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DE - 57068 Siegen |
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Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
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DE - 15230 Frankfurt |
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