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Algorithmic Authority and Why it Can’t be Trusted

Posted by Jennifer Mattern on November 21st, 2009 in PR Tools, Social Media

This post is in response to Frank Pasquale’s “Assessing Algorithmic Authority” which was in turn in response to Clay Shirky’s “A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority.” I attempted to leave this in comment form on Frank’s post, but kept getting errors (I hate when that happens), so lucky you — you get [...]