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Algorithmic Media refers to the systems and processes through which algorithms curate, generate, and distribute content across digital platforms. This field examines the implications of algorithmic decision-making on media consumption, production, and the broader societal impacts, including issues of bias, transparency, and user agency.
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Algorithmic Media refers to the systems and processes through which algorithms curate, generate, and distribute content across digital platforms. This field examines the implications of algorithmic decision-making on media consumption, production, and the broader societal impacts, including issues of bias, transparency, and user agency.

Key research themes

1. How does algorithmic mediation reshape cultural production and social interaction?

This research theme investigates how algorithms, as mediators of culture and sociality, fundamentally restructure how culture is produced, experienced, and understood. It focuses on the sociocultural implications of algorithmic decision-making processes, including the publicness of culture, the formation of social desires, and the reinforcement or amplification of social biases. Understanding this is vital for academics tracing the intersections of computational logics with cultural and social theory, highlighting emergent forms of 'algorithmic culture' and ideology.

Key finding: This paper identifies and historicizes the emergence of 'algorithmic culture', arguing that the offloading of cultural work to computational processes transforms traditional cultural practices and meanings, effectively... Read more
Key finding: Flisfeder develops a psychoanalytic and critical theory framework situating social media as a hegemonic signifier within neoliberal capitalism, where algorithms actualize a dominant ideology of desire that paradoxically... Read more
Key finding: This study reveals how swipe-based dating apps enable users’ unconscious racial biases to be algorithmically amplified within recommender systems, creating pernicious feedback loops that disassociate personal behavior from... Read more

2. What new methodologies and conceptual frameworks are needed to understand and critically engage with algorithmic media systems?

This area centers on developing novel theoretical and methodological insights for comprehending algorithms as socio-technical entities with institutional, epistemic, and embodied dimensions. It underlines the necessity for democratic accountability, interpretive frameworks bridging technical opacity and public discourse, and artistic explorations that foreground the physical and sensory experiences of algorithmic processes. It is key for scholars aiming to dissect algorithmic agency beyond technical abstraction and relate it to lived experience and institutional structures.

Key finding: The paper argues that the operational opacity and technical complexity of algorithms in media systems hinder the formation of democratic publics capable of accountable deliberation. It proposes that public understanding... Read more
Key finding: Through an artistic research project involving performers interpreting GPT-3-generated instructions, this work exposes the irresolvable tension between human bodily limits and algorithmically generated commands. It identifies... Read more
Key finding: This paper conceptualizes algorithms as distinct institutions exerting regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive functions within media systems. It extends institutional theory to algorithmic contexts, offering a... Read more
Key finding: By analyzing pandemic-era interface designs through interdisciplinary perspectives, this article proposes a diffractive methodological approach that positions the 'technobody' as a somatechnical datum imbued with uneasy... Read more

3. How can algorithmic processes be integrated and critically examined through art and creative practices?

This theme explores the role of artistic and aesthetic computation approaches for revealing the materiality, historical development, and conceptual underpinnings of algorithmic media. It highlights how art can operationalize algorithms not only in creating novel aesthetic experiences but also as a critical practice to interrogate technological and cultural assumptions. This area bridges media art history, technical re-coding, and experimental interface design to deepen academic understanding and public engagement with algorithmic processes.

Key finding: Through the case study of Sol LeWitt’s 'Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes', this paper demonstrates how re-coding classic algorithmic artworks digitally can uncover previously unrecognized errors and enrich historical and... Read more
Key finding: By curating an exhibition and discourse around machine and computational art, this work situates algorithmic art within a historical media archaeology, linking pieces across millennia of technological evolution. It... Read more
Key finding: This conceptual and curatorial exploration emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary art-science dialogues approached through STEAM frameworks, aiming to demystify algorithmic and machine art for broader audiences. It... Read more

All papers in Algorithmic Media

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Ao menos desde a década de 2010, o campo da comunicação vem ampliando os estudos sobre a relação entre entretenimento e política, na esteira da ascensão dos populismos de direita e a centralidade da internet para a política contemporânea.... more
Flisfeder's recent contribution to literature on social media within psychoanalysis and critical theory is less a variation on the well-versed theme than an ingeniously crafted statement, deserving the praise and attention both by those... more
Nos últimos cinco anos, a plataforma de vídeos YouTube e seus criadores de conteúdoos youtubersganharam atenção nas pesquisas científicas que advertem a respeito do papel cada vez mais proeminente da plataforma no que tange à disseminação... more
Este relatório se baseia em uma amostra composta por 23.139 vídeos publicados por 264 perfis de políticos no TikTok. Os dados coletados se referem ao período entre outubro de 2018 e março de 2022, quando se encerrou o prazo de... more
Esta pesquisa, de caráter exploratório e qualitativo, se insere tanto nos Estudos de Linguagem, quanto nas pesquisas em Comunicação Digital. Isso porque o objetivo principal é desvelar o ethos dos seguidores do presidente da República,... more
Recent developments in communication and information technology have disrupted the longestablished dominance of mass media over the production and distribution of news. As an effort to reclaim their role of society's information... more
O YouTube, por meio do seu sistema de recomendação de vídeos, vem sendo apontado como uma plataforma de disseminação de ideias conservadoras, na qual se desenvolve um modelo alternativo de influência que favorece a promoção de temas... more
This paper aims to analyze the spread of fake news in the 2018 presidential race. Through the methodology of digital ethnography we analyzed the main fake news circulated in 21 left and right political groups on Facebook between august... more
Trabalho apresentado ao Grupo de Trabalho Propaganda e marketing político do VIII Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em Comunicação e Política (VIII COMPOLÍTICA), realizado na Universidade de Brasília (UnB), de 15 a 17 de... more
O seguinte trabalho procura analisar uma possível politização de vídeos sobre videogames partindo do algoritmo do YouTube, através de uma abordagem metodológica que combina a análise topográfica das redes de recomendação da própria... more
O YouTube, por meio do seu sistema de recomendação de vídeos, vem sendo apontado como uma plataforma de disseminação de ideias conservadoras, na qual se desenvolve um modelo alternativo de influência que favorece a promoção de temas... more
O YouTube, por meio do seu sistema de recomendação de vídeos, vem sendo apontado como uma plataforma de disseminação de ideias conservadoras, na qual se desenvolve um modelo alternativo de influência que favorece a promoção de temas... more
As algorithmic media amplify longstanding social oppression, they also seek to colonize every last bit of sociality where that oppression could be resisted. Swipe apps constitute prototypical examples of this dynamic. By employing... more
Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar as hashtags e as tags ocultas inseridas nos vídeos de Jair Bolsonaro no YouTube publicados durante o período de campanha do primeiro turno das eleições presidenciais brasileiras de 2018, com base... more
Brazilian presidential elections, proposing that instant voice messaging borrows elements from radio language. We started from a broader research, conducted by the Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology in Digital... more
O objetivo do artigo é analisar as estratégias de uso dos stories do Instagram postados pelos candidatos à Presidência da República do Brasil em 2018. As nossas hipóteses de pesquisa são que os candidatos usaram os stories para enaltecer... more
Este estudo busca analisar a polarização ideológica que caracterizou as redes de retweets durante as eleições presidenciais de 2018. A metodologia deste trabalho consiste na formulação de grafos a partir coleta de retweets de publicações... more
Resumo: A comunicação auxiliada pela internet muda os contextos sociais, políticos e institucionais. Assim, no Brasil, em uma das eleições presidências mais polêmicas da história democrática do país, o candidato Jair Bolsonaro se utiliza... more
O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de examinar, sob à luz da Teoria Semiolinguística de Patrick Charaudeau, em uma postagem de Facebook, as intencionalidades psicosociodiscursivas que determinam as orientações discursivas expressas pelas... more
Keynote talk given at the “Cinema of Sensations” International Conference organized by the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, between the 25th and 27th of May, 2012.
This study aims to understand the dynamics of polarization and how news outlets influenced political discussions on Twitter during the 2018 Brazilian presidential campaign. We analyze four datasets using social network analysis. Our main... more
Resumo: O YouTube, por meio do seu sistema de recomendação de vídeos, vem sendo apontado como uma plataforma de disseminação de ideias conservadoras e reacionárias, na qual se desenvolve um sistema alternativo de influência que favorece a... more
Recent developments in communication and information technology have disrupted the long-established dominance of mass media over the production and distribution of news. As an effort to reclaim their role of society's information... more
There have been many recent attempts to bring insights from science and technology studies (STS) into media disciplines, many of which associate this work with materiality and technology, while existing media theories are used to analyse... more
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Various services on the Web 2.0 offer functions that allow users to post videos as response to a discussion topic. As an example, YouTube allows users to post video responses to an opening video topic. Such a video response can be a... more
Object-oriented programming was a major revolution in software coding that enabled graphic user interfaces and encapsulation of functions within programming objects. Bruno Latour famously asked "What would an object-oriented... more
Algorithms increasingly control the backbone of media and information systems. This control occurs deep within opaque technical systems far from the political attention capable of addressing its influence. It also challenges conventional... more
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Abstract Various services on the Web 2.0 offer functions that allow users to post videos as response to a discussion topic. As an example, YouTube allows users to post video responses to an opening video topic. Such a video response can... more
The Internet in Canada is an assemblage of private and public networks. A variety of institutions and networking codes manage these networks. Conflicts exist between these parties despite their interconnection. Tensions heightened when... more
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