Artikel

Algorithmic governance

Algorithmic governance as a key concept in controversies around the emerging digital society highlights the idea that digital technologies produce social ordering in a specific way. Starting with the origins of the concept, this paper portrays different perspectives and objects of inquiry where algorithmic governance has gained prominence ranging from the public sector to labour management and ordering digital communication. Recurrent controversies across all sectors such as datafication and surveillance, bias, agency and transparency indicate that the concept of algorithmic governance allows to bring objects of inquiry and research fields that had not been related before into a joint conversation. Short case studies on predictive policy and automated content moderation show that algorithmic governance is multiple, contingent and contested. It takes different forms in different contexts and jurisdictions, and it is shaped by interests, power, and resistance.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Internet Policy Review ; ISSN: 2197-6775 ; Volume: 8 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 1-18 ; Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
transparency
automation
politicisation
regulation
social ordering
governance
predictive policing
content moderation
algorithmic governance

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Katzenbach, Christian
Ulbricht, Lena
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2019

DOI
doi:10.14763/2019.4.1424
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  • Artikel

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  • Katzenbach, Christian
  • Ulbricht, Lena
  • Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Time of origin

  • 2019

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