The Organization in the Loop: Exploring Organizations as Complex Elements of Algorithmic Assemblages

Stefanie Büchner, Henrik Dosdall, Ioanna Constantiou

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Abstract

Organizations are a highly relevant contexts for understanding the interactions of algorithmic assemblages and the unfolding of algorithmic regimes. We argue that organizations must be understood as social systems that enable and restrict how algorithmic regimes unfold. We make this conceptual argument by analysing the algorithmic assemblage in the case of predictive policing in Germany and subsequently compare our insights with the case of hospitals which serve as our secondary case. Our analysis focuses on three crucial organizational dimensions: goals, differentiation, and goal conflicts. We argue that taking these dimensions into account sensitizes researchers not only to how organizations empower algorithmic regimes, but also to the frictions and breaks they cause.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAlgorithmic Regimes : Methods, Interactions, and Politics
EditorsJuliane Jarke, Bianca Prietl, Simon Egbert, Yana Boeva, Hendrik Heuer, Maike Arnold
Number of pages24
Place of PublicationAmsterdam
PublisherAmsterdam University Press
Publication date2024
Pages163-186
Chapter8
ISBN (Print)9789463728485
ISBN (Electronic)9789048556908
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
SeriesDigital Studies

Keywords

  • Goal conflicts
  • Differentiation
  • Predictive policing
  • Hospitals

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