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Algorithm Awareness: Towards a Philosophy of Artifactuality

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This contribution argues that while mankind is experiencing a decentering within its own media universe, a new agency has emerged: “algorithm awareness.” By looking into recent technological developments, this new agency is analyzed as enabling two automated capabilites that can be called “externalized anticipation“ and “externalized introspection.” With these modes of “mapping back” information on users, it becomes necessary to con- ceptualize what is here called “artifactuality”—a hybrid form of information that is derived neither from purely statistical nor purely individual data.

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Gramelsberger, Gabriele: Algorithm Awareness: Towards a Philosophy of Artifactuality. In: Bösel, Bernd;Wiemer, Serjoscha: Affective Transformations: Politics-Algorithms-Media. Lüneburg: meson 2020, S. 41-48. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14999.
@INCOLLECTION{Gramelsberger2020,
 author = {Gramelsberger, Gabriele},
 title = {Algorithm Awareness: Towards a Philosophy of Artifactuality},
 year = 2020,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14999}",
 editor = {Bösel, Bernd and Wiemer, Serjoscha},
 address = {Lüneburg},
 booktitle = {Affective Transformations: Politics-Algorithms-Media},
 pages = {41--48},
 publisher = {meson},
}
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