Futures of algorithms and choices: Structuration of algorithmic imaginaries and digital platforms in Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.17.1(35).707" target="_blank" >10.51480/1899-5101.17.1(35).707</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Futures of algorithms and choices: Structuration of algorithmic imaginaries and digital platforms in Europe
Original language description
The increasing impact of algorithmically driven processes on human societies, which can exacerbate political, economic, and cultural asymmetries, raises questions about reducing human agency by constraining platform structures. We draw on the theoretical concept of algorithmic imaginary, which captures users' appropriations and ideas of these processes. In this paper, we focus on the dynamics between agency and structure in algorithmic imaginaries regarding the future of digital media platforms in Europe. The paper takes structuration theory as a theoretical starting point and employs methods of futures studies to analyze how the future is constructed in scenarios developed by a diversity of experts participating in a series of workshops. The future scenarios analysis is mapped around four actors, namely platform users, platform corporations, algorithms and institutions. By considering the role of various actors, particularly institutions, and their interdependencies this paper contributes to more balanced conceptualizations of algorithmic imaginaries, which tend to be centered around users' perspectives.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Central European Journal of Communication
ISSN
1899-5101
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
38-60
UT code for WoS article
001329652900003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85198629792