Venue: B-117 Theatre, Basement, Melbourne School of Design
Presenters: Professor Paul Dourish
Arguments around the rise of automation and associated digital technology advances have traditionally focused on deskilling and the transformation of work. Lately, a new focus has emerged around the role of algorithms as things that shape our lives. Algorithms dispatch us taxis, evaluate our credit-worthiness, assess the security risks of online transactions, and choose which ads we see. They drive online dating sites, and gather the search results that help us decide on what to eat for dinner and where.
Algorithms aren’t just technical objects; they’re also social objects that play a role in the organisation of everyday sociality, and are the outcome of the social actions of organisations, professions, regulators, and lawmakers. Together, algorithms and data come to constitute a new way of understanding and talking about society and ourselves.
This lecture will address the social life of algorithms – both how we come to understand algorithms as objects, and the consequences of enabling them to act in and upon our world.
Professor Paul Dourish is a Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine, with courtesy appointments in Computer Science and Anthropology. He teaches in the Informatics program and in the interdisciplinary graduate program in Arts Computation and Engineering.
Presented as part of the Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellows Program.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKMhHnG3lM4
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