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Browsing Aufsätze in Zeitschriften by Subject "Algorithmus"

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    Form und Filter. Algorithmen der Bilderverarbeitung
    Heidenreich, Stefan (2003)
    Die Grundbegriffe Wölfflins lassen sich mit Hilfe digitaler Algorithmen nachmodellieren. Welches Wissen wird damit gewonnen? Auch Wölfflin hat auf mediale Veränderungen reagiert, indem er die Doppel-Projektion von Dias in den binären Differenzen der Grundbegriffe nachbildete. Sie lesen der Projektion zweier Bilder eine historische Differenz aus, die für die Disziplin der Kunstgeschichte grundlegend ist. Eine digitale Nachbildung dieser Differenz wäre tautologisch: sie würde ein gewusstes Wissen wiederholen. Fruchtbar wird der Einsatz digitaler Algorithmen dann, wenn sie nicht nur etwas Bekanntes abbilden, sondern wenn man fragt, zu welcher "methodischen Grenzerweiterung" sie beitragen könnten.
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    The historical trajectories of algorithmic techniques: an interview with Bernhard Rieder
    Stevenson, Michael; Helmond, Anne; Rieder, Bernhard (2020-02-14) , S. 105-114
    Bernhard Rieder is Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and a collaborator with the Digital Methods Initiative. His research focuses on the history, theory and politics of software and in particular on the role algorithms play in social processes and in the production of knowledge and culture. This includes work on the analysis, development, and application of computational research methods as well as investigation into the political and economic challenges posed by large online platform. In this interview, Michael Stevenson (MS) and Anne Helmond (AH) talk to Bernhard Rieder (BR) about his forthcoming book entitled Engines of Order: A Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques (University of Amsterdam Press, 2020). In particular, Rieder discusses how the practice of software-making is “constantly faced with the ‘legacies’ of previous work” and how the past continues to operate into present algorithmic techniques.
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    When search engines stopped being human: menu interfaces and the rise of the ideological nature of algorithmic search
    Kerssens, Niels (2017-06-16) , S. 219-237
    Algorithmic search is entangled with a positivist ideology biased towards the assumption that neutrality can only be provided when search is performed by computational processes while shielded from human agencies. This article critically examines the ideological nature of algorithmic search, by showing how, between the mid- 1970s and late-1980s, long before the birth of algorithmic search by search engines in the 1990s, a transformation from human interfaces to menu interfaces in online search helped encourage and normalise algorithmic ideology at the expense of a more humanistic ideology of search connected to library traditions. Based on a study of a broad corpus of archival materials in which online search appeared as a central object of description and discussion, it argues that the rise of menu interfaces in the 1980s encouraged the positivist nature of algorithmic search by decoupling a democratic service function at the front-end from the editorial function in the back-end, and by discouraging the use of human selection power and intellectual labour in the search process.