searching entangled and enfolded

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    May 28th, 2019

      @danielsgriffin via Twitter on May 28, 2019

      Ex.: searching entangled & enfolded
      How does Google Search account for its inflation of any top-ranked results’ later PageRank metric? How do we account for the authority imbued throughout the top results? For the Matthew Effect on the plutocratic web?

      @pdgoldman via Twitter on May 28, 2019

      What’s the phrase to describe when an algorithm doesn’t take into effect it’s own influence on an outcome?

      My thread, at link, below that tweet is a surface engagement with:

      • Orlikowski’s “Sociomaterial Practices: Exploring Technology at Work” (2007)
      • Introna’s “Maintaining the reversibility of foldings: Making the ethics (politics) of information technology visible” (2007)
      • Hayles’s “Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious” (2017) and handy hammers and trowels.

      But it also reminded me of some of my earliest deep engagement with search/ing:

      @danielsgriffin via Twitter on May 23, 2017

      What do we call the production of epistemic automaticity from Google’s algorithms’ automated search results?

      See also search automation bias (SAB).

      And this bit from earlier this spring (April 5th, 2019):

      @danielsgriffin via Twitter on Feb 1, 2022

      Interesting convo at “Governing Machines” re CYA notices re a machine “not meant to be used as a sole source of information” versus “automation bias” documented in practice (where a sort of epistemic automaticity foregoes reflection or seeking additional sources of information?).

      This page was published on 2019-05-30. Updated on 2023-07-10: updated tweet display to cards.

      References

      Hayles, N. K. (2017). Unthought: The power of the cognitive nonconscious. University of Chicago Press. [hayles2017unthought]

      Introna, L. D. (2007). Maintaining the reversibility of foldings: Making the ethics (politics) of information technology visible. Ethics Inf Technol, 9(1), 11–25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-006-9133-z [introna2007maintaining]

      Orlikowski, W. J. (2007). Sociomaterial practices: Exploring technology at work. Organization Studies, 28(9), 1435–1448. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840607081138 [orlikowski2007sociomaterial]