Democratic Algorithms: Ethnography of a Public Recommender System

Nikolaus Poechhacker(author)

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Title	Democratic Algorithms
Subtitle	Ethnography of a Public Recommender System
Contributor	Nikolaus Poechhacker(author)
Landing page	https://meson.press/books/democratic-algorithms
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Copyright	Nikolaus Poechhacker
Publisher	meson press
Publication place	Lüneburg
Published on	2024-05-24
ISBN	978-3-95796-224-9 (Paperback)
ISBN	978-3-95796-225-6 (PDF)
Short abstract	Can an algorithm be democratic? And how can we understand algorithms not only as technical, but also as social and political phenomena? Democratic Algorithms offers theoretically and empirically informed perspectives on how we can imagine and design algorithms for a democratic society, and what we even mean by that. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book illustrates how a recommender system was built in a public broadcaster, raising questions not only about organizational and technical implementation, but also about the possible compatibility of such an algorithmic system with democratic constitutions.
Long abstract	Can an algorithm be democratic? And how can we understand algorithms not only as technical, but also as social and political phenomena? Democratic Algorithms offers theoretically and empirically informed perspectives on how we can imagine and design algorithms for a democratic society, and what we even mean by that. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book illustrates how a recommender system was built in a public broadcaster, raising questions not only about organizational and technical implementation, but also about the possible compatibility of such an algorithmic system with democratic constitutions.
Print length	214 pages
Language	English (Original)
Dimensions	156 x 234 mm \| 6.14" x 9.21" (Paperback)
THEMA	JBCT1 JPHV UMB
BISAC	SOC052000 POL007000 COM051300
LCC	P87-96
Keywords	STS algorithm studies public broadcasting recommender systems media studies

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Nikolaus Poechhacker

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Post-Doc Senior Scientist at University of Klagenfurt

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6928-2099

Nikolaus Poechhacker is Post-Doc senior scientist at the Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC), University of Klagenfurt and research fellow at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation of Law, University of Vienna. He received his PhD in Sociology at the Technical University of Munich. In his work he researches the relationship between democratic institutions, law, social order, and algorithmic systems in various domains, bringing together perspectives from media theory, STS, computer science, and sociology.