English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Algorithms increasingly control the backbone of media and information systems. This control occurs deep within opaque technical systems far from the political attention capable of addressing its influence. It also challenges conventional public theory, because the technical operation of algorithms does not prompt the reflection and awareness necessary for forming publics. Informed public deliberation about algorithmic media requires new methods, or mediators, that translate their operations into something publicly tangible. Combining an examination of theoretical work from Science and Technology Studies (STS) with Communication Studies–grounded research into Internet traffic management practices, this article posits that mediating the issues raised by algorithmic media requires that we embrace democratic methods of Internet measurement. De plus en plus, les algorithmes gouvernent la base des medias et des systemes d’information. Ce controle s’exerce au plus profond de systemes techniques obscurs, loin de l’attention du monde politique et de responsables aptes a encadrer une telle influence. En outre, il remet en question la theorie classique du public. En effet, l’exploitation technique des algorithmes ne suscite pas la reflexion et la sensibilisation propres a eduquer le public. Ainsi, pour qu’ait lieu un debat eclaire, ouvert a tous, sur les medias algorithmiques, il faut privilegier de nouvelles methodes, ou mediateurs, qui permettront de transposer les activites de ces medias en notions publiquement tangibles. La demarche proposee dans cet article associe l’etude de la communication, etayee par la recherche sur les pratiques de gestion du trafic Internet, a une analyse des travaux theoriques emanant de l’etude des sciences et des technologies. On y pose en principe que la resolution des questions soulevees par les medias algorithmiques passe par l’adoption de methodes de mesure Internet democratiques.

Algorithmic Media Need Democratic Methods: Why Publics Matter