“Algorithms and their others: Algorithmic culture in context” (2016), by Paul Dourish. Arts and Humanities research paper. Original abstract below, unchanged. No free PDF was found.

Algorithms and their others: Algorithmic culture in context

Paul Dourish · August 24, 2016 · Arts and Humanities

Abstract

Algorithms, once obscure objects of technical art, have lately been subject to considerable popular and scholarly scrutiny. What does it mean to adopt the algorithm as an object of analytic attention? What is in view, and out of view, when we focus on the algorithm? Using Niklaus Wirth's 1975 formulation that “algorithms + data structures = programs” as a launching-off point, this paper examines how an algorithmic lens shapes the way in which we might inquire into contemporary digital culture.

Source page DOI: 10.1177/2053951716665128