Gritsenko, D., Markham, A., Pötzsch, H., & Wijermars, M. (eds.). (2022). Algorithmic Governance in Context, New Media & Society, 24(4).
In this special issue, we start from the assumption that algorithms and the new forms of governance they enable are here to stay—for better and for worse. Academics, activists, decision-makers, and everyone else need to keep the inherently ambivalent and ambiguous dimensions of this new technology in mind. Algorithms won’t save us and (most likely) won’t destroy us. As all technology, they operate in context and the varying contexts they are used in have an influence on their ultimate consequences and effects. This special issue seeks to initiate debate about how to meaningfully identify and operationalize these manifold contexts. Rather than stating that context matters, the contributions collected in this special issue offer new empirical evidence and theoretical approaches to show in what ways this is the case.
Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Ulloa, R., & Kulshrestha, J. (2022). Can an algorithm remember the Holocaust? Comparative algorithmic audit of Holocaust-related information on search engines. Connected Histories 2022. Vienna, 23-24 May 2022.
Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Ulloa, R. & Kulshrestha, J. (2022). Comparative algorithm audit of representation of mass atrocities on web search engines. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.
Makhortykh, M., Urman, A. & Wijermars, M. (2022). Authoritarian news personalisation and the 2021 Russian parliamentary elections. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.
Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., & Wijermars, M. (2021). Authoritarian news personalisation on Yandex.Zen during the 2021 Russian parliamentary elections. Electoral Integrity and Malpractice in Russia and Beyond: New Challenges and Responses. 25-26 October 2021, Helsinki, Finland.
Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Münch, F., Heldt, A., Dreyer, S., & Kettemann, M. (2021). Never send a human to do a machine's job? A cross-platform analysis of policies, mechanisms, and practices of automated agent governance. 4S 2021. 6-9 October 2021 (online conference).
Makhortykh, M. (2021). Historia ex machina: Algorithms as agents of public history. Poletayev Readings X. 30 September - 1 October 2021 (online conference).
Makhortykh, M. (2021). Data bias and algorithmic fairness. Big Data, AI & Machine Learning. 24 September 2021 (online conference).
Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., & Ulloa, R. (2021). Auditing algorithmic content curation on search engines using virtual agents. ICA 2021. 27-31 May 2021 (online conference).
Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., & Ulloa, R. (2021). Hey, Google, is it what the Holocaust really looked like? Auditing biases in visual representation of the Holocaust on web search engines. ICA 2021. 27-31 May 2021 (online conference).
Makhortykh, M., Urman, A. & Ulloa, R. (2021). Hey, Google, tell me what the Holocaust looked like: Visual framing of mass atrocities by search engines. DACH 21: Kommunikation #(R)Evolution. 7-9 April 2021 (online conference).
Makhortykh, M., Urman, A. & Ulloa, R. (2021). Scaling virtual agent-based testing for cross-platform analysis of algorithmic content curation. DACH 21: Kommunikation #(R)Evolution. 7-9 April 2021 (online conference).
Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., & Ulloa, R. (2021). Detecting race and gender bias in visual representation of AI on web search engines. Second International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (Bias 2021). 1 April 2021 (online workshop).
Merten, L., Münch, F.V., Schuster, M. (2022). I really thought I would use more than just Google - Investigating the journalistic use of algorithmic information intermediaries with data donations of browser histories. ECREA - 9th European Communication Conference.
Pereira, G. (2021). Struggling with Algorithmic Seeing: Hegemonic CV and Antagonistic Practices. Talk at Images of Machine Learning Online Symposium.1 July 2021. Australia/Online.
Pereira, G. & Pötzsch, H. (2021). Artistic Responses to Algorithmic Governance: Reimagining and Transgressing Algorithmic Imaginaries. 4S – Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science. 6-9 October 2021.Toronto/Online.
Pereira, G. (2020). The antagonistic & activistic life of algorithms. Roundtable with Mark Andrejevic, Shintaro Miyazaki, Stine Lomborg, Seong Jae Min, Luke Heemsbergen. Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2020.
Pötzsch, H. (2022). Algorithms at Work: Unions in the Digital Economy. Algorithms, Art & Politics. 20-21 May 2022. University of Tromsø.
Pötzsch, H. (2021). Makt og motmakt: Hvordan Foucault kan hjelpe oss å forstå vår digitale samtid. Filosofiske samtaler. 3 June 2021. University of Tromsø.