Algorithms and Organizing

IF 4.4 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Human Communication Research Pub Date : 2022-05-19 DOI:10.1093/hcr/hqac013

Tomi Laapotti, Mitra Raappana

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Algorithms are a ubiquitous part of organizations as they enable, guide, and restrict organizing at the level of everyday interactions. This essay focuses on algorithms and organizing by reviewing the literature on algorithms in organizations, examining the viewpoint of relationality and relational agency on algorithms and organizing, exploring the properties of algorithms, and concluding what these mean from an organizational communication viewpoint. Algorithms need data to be collected. The data are always biased, and algorithms exclude everything that is not in their code. They define what is seen as important. Their operating principles are opaque, and they are political due to human interference. Algorithms are not just used. Rather, they are co-actors in organizing. We argue that algorithms demand rethinking communication in the communicative constitution of organizations and call for more empirical research emphasizing the properties of algorithms, the relationality of algorithms, and the temporality of the materialization of algorithms.

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算法与组织

算法是组织中无处不在的一部分，因为它们在日常交互层面上支持、指导和限制组织。本文通过回顾关于组织中算法的文献，研究关于算法和组织的关系和关系代理的观点，探索算法的特性，并从组织沟通的角度总结这些特性的含义，从而关注算法和组织。算法需要收集数据。数据总是有偏见的，算法排除了代码之外的一切。他们定义了什么是重要的。他们的运作原则是不透明的，由于人为干预，他们是政治性的。算法不仅仅被使用。相反，他们是组织的合作者。我们认为，算法需要在组织的沟通构成中重新思考沟通，并呼吁进行更多的实证研究，强调算法的特性、算法的相关性和算法物化的时间性。

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来源期刊

Human Communication Research COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

8.20

自引率

2.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： Human Communication Research is one of the official journals of the prestigious International Communication Association and concentrates on presenting the best empirical work in the area of human communication. It is a top-ranked communication studies journal and one of the top ten journals in the field of human communication. Major topic areas for the journal include language and social interaction, nonverbal communication, interpersonal communication, organizational communication and new technologies, mass communication, health communication, intercultural communication, and developmental issues in communication.