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urn:uuid:d4128974-60ee-467c-b337-7001c37d6de5 03 15 9783957962256 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Democratic Algorithms Ethnography of a Public Recommender System 1 A01 Nikolaus Poechhacker Nikolaus Poechhacker is Post-Doc senior scientist at the Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC), University of Klagenfurt and research fellow at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation of Law, University of Vienna. He received his PhD in Sociology at the Technical University of Munich. In his work he researches the relationship between democratic institutions, law, social order, and algorithmic systems in various domains, bringing together perspectives from media theory, STS, computer science, and sociology. 01 eng 00 214 03 04 P87-96 10 SOC052000 23 STS 23 algorithm studies 10 POL007000 10 COM051300 23 public broadcasting 23 recommender systems 23 media studies 01 06 03 00 Can an algorithm be democratic? And how can we understand algorithms not only as technical, but also as social and political phenomena? Democratic Algorithms offers theoretically and empirically informed perspectives on how we can imagine and design algorithms for a democratic society, and what we even mean by that. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book illustrates how a recommender system was built in a public broadcaster, raising questions not only about organizational and technical implementation, but also about the possible compatibility of such an algorithmic system with democratic constitutions. meson press 01 meson press 04 01 20240524 02 WORLD 06 15 9783957962249 06 15 9783957962256 WORLD 09 meson press 20 01