Futures of algorithms and choices

Pub Date : 2024-07-04 DOI:10.51480/1899-5101.17.1(35).707
Miloš Hroch, Panos Kompatsiaris, Volker Grassmuck, José Moreno, Lutz Peschke, Jan Jirák, Debashmita Poddar
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The increasing impact of algorithmically driven processes on human societies, which can exacerbate political, economic, and cultural asymmetries, raises questions about reducing human agency by constraining platform structures. We draw on the theoretical concept of algorithmic imaginary, which captures users’ appropriations and ideas of these processes. In this paper, we focus on the dynamics between agency and structure in algorithmic imaginaries regarding the future of digital media platforms in Europe. The paper takes structuration theory as a theoretical starting point and employs methods of futures studies to analyze how the future is constructed in scenarios developed by a diversity of experts participating in a series of workshops. The future scenarios analysis is mapped around four actors, namely platform users, platform corporations, algorithms and institutions. By considering the role of various actors, particularly institutions, and their interdependencies this paper contributes to more balanced conceptualizations of algorithmic imaginaries, which tend to be centered around users’ perspectives.
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算法和选择的未来
算法驱动的流程对人类社会的影响越来越大,可能会加剧政治、经济和文化的不对称,这就提出了通过限制平台结构来减少人类能动性的问题。我们借鉴了 "算法想象"(algorithmic imaginary)这一理论概念,它捕捉了用户对这些流程的占用和想法。在本文中,我们将重点关注在关于欧洲数字媒体平台未来的算法想象中,代理与结构之间的动态关系。本文以结构化理论为理论起点,采用未来研究的方法,分析未来是如何在由参加一系列研讨会的各类专家制定的情景方案中被构建出来的。未来情景分析围绕四个角色展开,即平台用户、平台公司、算法和机构。通过考虑不同参与者(尤其是机构)的作用及其相互依存关系,本文有助于对算法想象进行更平衡的概念化,而算法想象往往以用户视角为中心。
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