Abstract

This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding forms of experimentation. Here the algorithm must prove its ability to get a grip on everyday life if it is to become an ordinary feature of the settings where it is being put to work. Through investigating the everyday life of the algorithm, the book opens a conversation with existing social science research that tends to focus on the power and opacity of algorithms. In this book we have unique access to the algorithm’s design, development and testing, but can also bear witness to its fragility and dependency on others.

Highlights

  • Everyday Life and the Algorithm AbstractThis chapter introduces the recent academic literature on ­algorithms and some of the popular concerns that have been expressed about algorithms in mainstream media, including the power and o­ pacity of algorithms

  • I suggested that insights into the everyday life of the algorithm are crucial to making sense of how it participates in bringing about effects

  • I have started to build a sense of the everyday life in which our algorithm was becoming a participant

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INTRODUCTION

EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE ALGORITHM 5 I will begin this task by working through some of the recent academic literature on algorithms. I suggested that insights into the everyday life of the algorithm are crucial to making sense of how it participates in bringing about effects It is these effects and the complex sets of relations that in various ways underpin their emergence that need to be studied for the ordered steps of the abandoned luggage algorithm to be rendered accountable. Prescribing acts on everyday life by establishing an engineered morality of what ought to count as reasonable in the human encounters met by the groom The chapter concludes with an analysis of the distinct and only occasionally integrated everyday lives of the algorithm

Conclusion
THE DELETING MACHINE AND ITS DISCONTENTS 75
DEMONSTRATING THE ALGORITHM 95
DEMONSTRATING THE ALGORITHM 105
Findings
MARKET VALUE AND THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE ALGORITHM 125
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