Digital Rights Roundtable – Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control

Angèle Christin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Affiliated Faculty in the Sociology Department and Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University. She studies how algorithms and analytics transform professional values, expertise, and work practices. Her work on “Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control” discusses how the use of algorithmic technologies in organisations may reshape organisational control. These include: (i) potential problems with the largely positive view of algorithms at work; (ii) the capabilities of algorithmic systems to facilitate a form of rational control; (iii) how the use of algorithms is sparking the development of new algorithmic occupations; and (iv) how workers are individually and collectively resisting algorithmic control.

An audio recording of this event is available to listen to on Soundcloud