New release: Algorithmic Cultures. Edited by Robert Seyfert and Jonathan Roberge
26. September 2016
Essays on Meaning, Performance and New Technologies
Abingdon: Routledge 2017
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This book provides in-depth and wide-ranging analyses of the emergence, and subsequent ubiquity, of algorithms in diverse realms of social life. The plurality of Algorithmic Cultures emphasizes:
1) algorithms’ increasing importance in the formation of new epistemic and organizational paradigms; and
2) the multifaceted analyses of algorithms across an increasing number of research fields.
With contributions from leading experts from Media Studies, Social Studies of Science and Technology, Cultural and Media Sociology from Canada, France, Germany, UK and the USA, this volume presents cutting edge empirical and conceptual research that includes case studies on social media platforms, gaming, financial trading and mobile security infrastructures. (publishers)
Robert Seyfert is a research associate (postdoc) at the Center of Excellence „Cultural Foundations of Social Integration“ at Universität Konstanz, Germany, and recently Visiting Full Professor of Comparative Cultural Sociology at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
Jonathan Roberge is Assistant Professor of Cultural and Urban Sociology at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Quebec; he holds the Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture, in addition to being a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.
This book is based on the contributions to the conference “Algorithmic Cultures” which took place at the University of Konstanz in June 2014. The Center of Excellence has supported both, the conference and the publishing/English editing of this book.