Algorithms

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm ( (listen)) is a finite sequence of well-defined, computer-implementable instructions, typically to solve a class of problems or to perform a computation. Algorithms are always unambiguous and are used as specifications for performing calculations, data processing, automated reasoning, and other tasks. As an effective method, an algorithm can be expressed within a finite amount of space and time, and in a well-defined formal language for calculating a function. Starting from an initial state and initial input (perhaps empty), the instructions describe a computation that, when executed, proceeds through a finite number of well-defined …

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Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English

should have one single, conclusive definition. This project grew from a desire to explore how algorithms become part of and influence state functions, how trust and doubt in public sector data infrastructures

started this project we wanted to explore how algorithms become part of and influence state functions Burrell and Marion Fourcade, “The Society of Algorithms,” Annual Review of Sociology 47, no. 1 (July Datafied State Data & Society 19 In a society of algorithms,1 governments can become the biggest customer 2021). 16 Tarleton Gillespie, “The Relevance of Algorithms,” in Media Technologies: Essays on Communication Frank Pasquale, Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information (Cambridge:


Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English

Data: Diving deep into the lived experience of data Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital subjecthood, this book explores the role of algorithms Selves. [...] in accounting for the everyday experiences

Diving deep into the lived experience of data Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital subjecthood, this this book explores the role of algorithms Selves. First published in paperback. New in shaping our identities


Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English

PUBLIC PUBLIC PUBLIC BY AMINA ABDU and ABIGAIL JACOBS ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATION Keywords of the Datafied State Data & Society 79 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION By Amina Abdu and Abigail Jacobs Viewpoints …

and Arbitrariness Discussions around government algorithms have centered on many of the same ideals as those and effi- ciency. Proponents of administrative algorithms highlight their potential to advance legitimacy “Accountable Artificial Intelligence: Holding Algorithms to racy, and increased consistency.8 In theory Math Destruction: How Big Data words, government algorithms promise to mitigate the arbitrariness of deci- “Accountable Artificial Intelligence: Holding Algorithms to Galison call mechanical objectivity, a vision


Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English

In the context of the US criminal punishment system, we advocate for counterdata and counteranalyses that hold state entities accountable and center the needs and aims of incarcerated people. [...] …

York: NYU Press, 2019); Kimberle Crenshaw, “From algorithms through a critical data studies lens. Private (counter)-datafication project of the institution and Algorithms” (workshop, Data & Civil Rights: A New Era of org/10.1145/3531146.3533104; Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce nity healing and justice. While institutional data and algorithms seek to entrench punitive priori- ties of the


Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English

As the growing power of digital com- puters opened new paths for the automation of logical and not just physical processes, technology came to be understood as a potential solution …

behavior.9 Brian 8 Sarah Valentine, “Impoverished Algorithms: Misguided Governments, Massumi has described profiling, classification, and risk prediction algorithms that use data to classify citizens, assess their welfare is UK: Polity Press, 2019); Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism Karen Levy, Kyla E. Chasalow, and Sarah Riley, “Algorithms and Decision- of the ability to deliver better


Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024

BUREAUCRACY BUREAUCRACY BUREAUCRACY BY LUDMILA COSTHEK ABÍLIO and CAROLINA CRUZ BUREAUCRACY BUREAUCRACY BUREAUCRACY Keywords of the Datafied State Data & Society 60 BUREAUCRACY By Ludmila Costhek Abílio and Carolina Cruz …

both of 4 Tarleton Gillespie, “The Relevance of Algorithms,” in Media Technologies: technology and bureaucracy Publishing Group, 2016); Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines inequalities


Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English

Especially since the 2010s, under the guise of public-private partnerships, tech companies have effectively turned the datafied state into a reliant client.14 In these so-called partnerships, companies feign a commit- …

(Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2021); Safiya Noble, Algorithms of fraining from interference. 5 Behind the facade groups.11 Similar issues arise in risk assessment algorithms in criminal justice, predictive policing, or


Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English

While the concept of data publics is rooted in the western notion of publics as a counterweight to state practices, the Korean case illustrates how data publics can complement, and …

developing, and implementing computational tools and algorithms to improve the efficiency of public administration


Data & Society Institute · 23 April 2024

from afar.8 These have also been the central means through which state 8 Katarzyna Cieslik and Dániel Margócsy, “Datafication, Power and Control agencies come to know and manage populations and …

Frank Pasquale, Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money tion status. Individual administrative


Data & Society Institute · 23 April 2024 English

ship has taken shape within the master narrative of modernization and 4 Linnet Taylor and Dennis Broeders, “In the Name of Development: Power, progress — using computing and datafication as …

Burrell and Marion Fourcade, “The Society of Algorithms,” Annual Review of Sociology 47, no. 1 (July Princeton University Press, 2022). In a society of algorithms,1 governments can become the biggest customer ways. 16 Tarleton Gillespie, “The Relevance of Algorithms,” in Media Technologies: Essays on Communication


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