Dr Benjamin Jacobsen benjamin.jacobsen@durham.ac.uk
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Regimes of recognition on algorithmic media
Jacobsen, Benjamin N
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Abstract
This article examines ways in which people are seen, recognised, and made to matter by social media platforms. Drawing on Louise Amoore’s notion of ‘regimes of recognition’, I argue that social media platforms can be conceptualised as increasingly powerful arbiters of recognisability, determining the conditions of possibility of how people are seen and come to matter. Through an analysis of Twitter’s saliency detection algorithm, which automatically crops images uploaded to the platform, the article highlights how social media platforms participate in producing novel modes of recognisability, that is, conditions by which people are rendered visible and invisible within or by the platform. Moreover, the article highlights how regimes of recognition on algorithmic media shape people’s parameters of attention and perception more generally through what I call the automatic production of ‘consistent’ lines of sight. Ultimately, the article seeks to highlight how the notion of recognition is increasingly arbitrated in and through algorithmic media and how this is fraught with political issues and tension. As such, there is an ongoing need to critically examine the power of social media to render people visible and invisible.
Citation
Jacobsen, B. N. (2023). Regimes of recognition on algorithmic media. New Media and Society, 25(12), 3641–3656. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211053555
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Sep 28, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Oct 26, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2023-12 |
Deposit Date | Jan 19, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 20, 2022 |
Journal | New Media & Society |
Print ISSN | 1461-4448 |
Electronic ISSN | 1461-7315 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 25 |
Issue | 12 |
Pages | 3641–3656 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211053555 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1216444 |
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