Machines among the crowd

On the Political Effects of Algorithmic Production of Social Currents

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2489174
AutoresJair De Souza Ramos (0000-0002-8004-805X, Universidade Federal Fluminense, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume16
Data de publicação2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412019v16a210
OpenAlexW2990720683
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412019000100210
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas8

In this paper, I discuss a few ways that mechanisms for collective action are reconfigured by the activity of digital communication technologies. In particular, I examine how algorithms mobilized on the Social Web co-participate in the regulation of interdependence between the elements that compose contemporary figurations through the following mechanisms: by the production and organization of sociality by curating content, recommendations, and instructions for users; by their impact on the social production of the categories of time, space and identity; by the expansion of a business model that interlaces algorithmic activity and human action; and by the reconfiguration of the social modes of production and dissemination of knowledge. I conclude with the examination of the political consequences of this algorithmic activity in the production of social currents

Aesthetics · Collective action · Control reconfiguration · Economics · Knowledge management · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociality · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Digital Media and Philosophy · Social Media and Politics