What is an algorithm?

How has it become part of social discurs?

it has turning into an adjective e.g. “algorithmic power”(Bucher)
“a social phenomenon”

seems to be a question about agency-> who designs them, who operates them?

data <-> users

the “algorithmic” becomes part of human knowledge and social experience.

social facts = measurable data

social phenomena = computational models

computer or human can ACT on formalised information
(james bridle new dark age-> also look at to encounter a cephalopod intelligence is to encounter an alien intelligence)

this formalised info can be used in different contexts away from the “original” agent, question of agency

“It is a principled commitment to the “if/then” logic of computation.”

glorification of the algorithm by subscribing it human subjectivity

does an algorithmic situation consist of :people,machines and procedures (?)

“And it is crucial that we continue to examine algorithmic systems and their providers and users ethnographically, to explore how the systemic and the ad hoc coexist and are managed within them.”

specicism and singularity ?