Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaRage against the machine learning: a critical approach to the algorithmic mediation of information
Before being an exaltation to Luddites (the English workers from the 19th century who actually destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest) or to some sort of technophobic movement, the provocative pun contained in the title of this article carries a methodological proposal, in the field of cri...
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Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências
2020
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| author | Bezerra, Arthur Coelho Almeida, Marco Antônio de |
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| description | Before being an exaltation to Luddites (the English workers from the 19th century who actually destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest) or to some sort of technophobic movement, the provocative pun contained in the title of this article carries a methodological proposal, in the field of critical theory of information, to build a diagnosis about the algorithmic filtering of information, which reveals itself to be a structural characteristic of the new regime of information that brings challenges to human emancipation. Our analysis starts from the concept of mediation to problematize the belief, widespread in much of contemporary society, that the use of machine learning and deep learning techniques for algorithmic filtering of big data will provide answers and solutions to all our questions and problems. We will argue that the algorithmic mediation of information on the internet, which is responsible for deciding which information we will have access to and which will remain invisible, is operated according to the economic interests of the companies that control the platforms we visit on the internet, acting as obstacle to the prospects of informational diversity and autonomy that are fundamental in free and democratic societies. |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO707292022-03-21T17:23:21Z Rage against the machine learning: a critical approach to the algorithmic mediation of information Bezerra, Arthur Coelho Almeida, Marco Antônio de Critical theory of information Regime of information Algorithimic flitering Machine Learning Mediation Before being an exaltation to Luddites (the English workers from the 19th century who actually destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest) or to some sort of technophobic movement, the provocative pun contained in the title of this article carries a methodological proposal, in the field of critical theory of information, to build a diagnosis about the algorithmic filtering of information, which reveals itself to be a structural characteristic of the new regime of information that brings challenges to human emancipation. Our analysis starts from the concept of mediation to problematize the belief, widespread in much of contemporary society, that the use of machine learning and deep learning techniques for algorithmic filtering of big data will provide answers and solutions to all our questions and problems. We will argue that the algorithmic mediation of information on the internet, which is responsible for deciding which information we will have access to and which will remain invisible, is operated according to the economic interests of the companies that control the platforms we visit on the internet, acting as obstacle to the prospects of informational diversity and autonomy that are fundamental in free and democratic societies. 2020-06-30 2022-03-21T17:23:21Z 2022-03-21T17:23:21Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/bjis/article/view/9934 10.36311/1981-1640.2020.v14n2.02.p6 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/70729 por https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/bjis/article/view/9934/6538 application/pdf Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Brazilian Journal of Information Science: Research Trends; Vol. 14 No. 2 - abr-Jun (2020); 06-23 Brazilian Journal of Information Science: Research Trends; Vol. 14 Núm. 2 - abr-Jun (2020); 06-23 Brazilian Journal of Information Science: research trends; v. 14 n. 2 - abr-Jun (2020); 06-23 1981-1640 |
| spellingShingle | Critical theory of information Regime of information Algorithimic flitering Machine Learning Mediation Bezerra, Arthur Coelho Almeida, Marco Antônio de Rage against the machine learning: a critical approach to the algorithmic mediation of information |
| title | Rage against the machine learning: a critical approach to the algorithmic mediation of information |
| title_full | Rage against the machine learning: a critical approach to the algorithmic mediation of information |
| title_fullStr | Rage against the machine learning: a critical approach to the algorithmic mediation of information |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rage against the machine learning: a critical approach to the algorithmic mediation of information |
| title_short | Rage against the machine learning: a critical approach to the algorithmic mediation of information |
| title_sort | rage against the machine learning: a critical approach to the algorithmic mediation of information |
| topic | Critical theory of information Regime of information Algorithimic flitering Machine Learning Mediation |
| url | https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/bjis/article/view/9934 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/70729 |