Everyday Life of an Algorithm

Daniel Neyland is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, the University of London, UK. His research engages with issues of governance, accountability and ethics in forms of science, technology and organization. He has published books on privacy and surveillance, organizational ethnography, mundane governance (co-authored with Steve Woolgar) and markets (co-authored with Vera Ehrenstein and Sveta Milyaeva).

• 1. Introduction: Everyday life and the algorithm.- 2. Experimentation with a probable human-shaped object.- 3. Accountability and the algorithm.- 4. The deleting machine and its discontents.- 5. Demonstrating the algorithm.- 6. Market value and the everyday life of the algorithm.