[Petit Fours #427] On co-use, crystals, and everyday algorithms
Hi, everyone! Here’s what I’ve got for you today, as the first quarter of this year comes to a close:
#1 Metaphors matter. In working on a different one for a paper-in-progress, I revisited this little gem by Angela Y. Lee, Hannah Mieczkowski, Nicole Ellison, and Jeffrey Hancock: The Algorithmic Crystal: Conceptualizing the Self through Algorithmic Personalization on TikTok
#2 Replication matters, too – and is notoriously difficult. Here’s an interesting blogpost by Adeline Clarke: Should we trust in the results of computational social science? “How can we as computational social scientists expect others to trust in our results, invest significant time to learn how to replicate an approach, or believe that our findings are robust (that is, that the found phenomenon would be identifiable using other methods) if we can’t convince them that we understand how they came about?“
#3 If you are in Stockholm on May 13, come join our event at the Finnish embassy on algorithms in the everyday: Hur påverkas vardagen av algoritmer? Advert in Swedish, event in English, free and open to the public, pre-registration required.
#4 As a fun #ProudLittleSister moment, here’s a blogpost by my sister about digital justice, co-use, and libraries (in Finnish): Yhdessä kohti digitaalista oikeudenmukaisuutta: kanssa-asiointi kirjastojen digineuvonnassa
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