Tarleton Gillespie

Custodians of the Internet

in CivilServant Summit

What I’d like to do just with the few minutes that I’m up here is to set the stage. This is a huge set of questions, and I think a set of questions that are exploding into public view in a way that they hadn’t even just a few years ago. So I want to sort of like, set the broad place that some of these questions kinda live.

The Relevance of Algorithms

in The Relevance of Algorithms

How would we begin to look at the pro­duc­tion of the algo­rith­mic? Not the pro­duc­tion of algo­rithms, but the pro­duc­tion of the algo­rith­mic as a jus­ti­fi­able, legit­i­mate mech­a­nism for knowl­edge pro­duc­tion. Where is that being estab­lished and how do we exam­ine it?