The society of algorithms

J Burrell, M Fourcade - Annual Review of Sociology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The pairing of massive data sets with processes—or algorithms—written in computer code to
sort through, organize, extract, or mine them has made inroads in almost every major social …

The ethics of AI ethics: An evaluation of guidelines

T Hagendorff - Minds and machines, 2020 - Springer
Current advances in research, development and application of artificial intelligence (AI)
systems have yielded a far-reaching discourse on AI ethics. In consequence, a number of …

Studying up machine learning data: Why talk about bias when we mean power?

M Miceli, J Posada, T Yang - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Research in machine learning (ML) has argued that models trained on incomplete or biased
datasets can lead to discriminatory outputs. In this commentary, we propose moving the …

Big data from the South (s): Beyond data universalism

S Milan, E Treré - Television & New Media, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article introduces the tenets of a theory of datafication of and in the Souths. It calls for a
de-Westernization of critical data studies, in view of promoting a reparation to the cognitive …

The decolonial turn in data and technology research: what is at stake and where is it heading?

N Couldry, UA Mejias - Information, Communication & Society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article traces the emergence of a 'decolonial turn'in critical technology and data studies
that analyzes the transformation of society through data extraction for profit. First, we offer a …

The data-production dispositif

M Miceli, J Posada - Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Machine learning (ML) depends on data to train and verify models. Very often, organizations
outsource processes related to data work (ie, generating and annotating data and …

Digital labour: a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis

V Goel, BR Unny, S Shome, Y Gupta - International Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to conduct a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis
on the topic of digital labour. The study also identifies the future research directions for the …

The problem with annotation. Human labour and outsourcing between France and Madagascar

C Le Ludec, M Cornet, AA Casilli - Big Data & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Artificial intelligence advancements have reignited job displacement debates that focus on
how the use of artificial intelligence affects labour, without considering how the production of …

The platformization of labor and society

A Casilli, J Posada - Society and the internet: How networks of …, 2019 - books.google.com
This chapter focuses on the role of digital intermediaries in shaping technology, Society, and
economy under what Casilli and Posada call “the paradigm of the platform.” They trace the …

“API-based research” or how can digital sociology and journalism studies learn from the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data breach

T Venturini, R Rogers - Digital Journalism, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
API-based research is an approach to computational social sciences and digital sociology
based on the extraction of records from the datasets made available by online platforms …