Algorithmic Societies: Ethical Life in the Machine Learning Age

Project Information

ALGOSOC

Grant agreement ID: 883107

DOI

10.3030/883107

EC signature date 11 June 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 30 September 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 150 686,00

EU contribution

€ 2 150 686,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture

Author(s): Alexander Campolo
Published in: Digital Society, Issue 4, 2025, ISSN 2731-4650
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s44206-025-00190-x

Machine learning and the politics of synthetic data

Author(s): Benjamin N Jacobsen
Published in: Big Data & Society, 2023, Vol.10(1) [Peer Reviewed Journal], Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/20539517221145372

The material geographies of Bitfury in Georgia: Integrating cryptoasset firms into global financial networks

Author(s): Ryan Wyeth, Ludovico Rella, Ed Atkins
Published in: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Issue 56, 2025, Page(s) 816-832, ISSN 0308-518X
Publisher: Pion Ltd.
DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231211789

Algorithmic emergence? Epistemic in/justice in AI-directed transformations of healthcare

Author(s): Imo Emah, SJ Bennett
Published in: Frontiers in Sociology, Issue 10, 2025, ISSN 2297-7775
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1520810

Politics of data re-use in machine learning systems

Author(s): Thylstrup, Nanna Bondo Kristian Bonde Hansen Mikkel Flyverbom Louise Amoore
Published in: Big Data and Society, Issue 9(2), 2022, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: Sage

The deep border

Author(s): Louise Amoore
Published in: Political Geography, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 0962-6298
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102547

Datawars: reflections twenty years after 9/11

Author(s): Louise Amoore; Marieke de Goede
Published in: Critical Studies on Terrorism, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1753-9153
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2021.1982117

“Desired behaviors”: alignment and the emergence of a machine learning ethics

Author(s): Katia Schwerzmann, Alexander Campolo
Published in: AI & SOCIETY, 2025, ISSN 0951-5666
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00146-025-02272-3

Hybrid materialities, power, and expertise in the era of general purpose technologies

Author(s): Ludovico Rella, Kristian Bondo Hansen, Nanna Bonde Thylsturp, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Alex Preda, Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Ruowen Xu, Till Straube
Published in: Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, Issue 26, 2025, Page(s) 138-157, ISSN 1600-910X
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2024.2414312

A world model: On the political logics of generative AI

Author(s): Louise Amoore, Alexander Campolo, Benjamin Jacobsen, Ludovico Rella
Published in: Political Geography, Issue 113, 2024, Page(s) 103134, ISSN 0962-6298
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103134

Machine Learning Political Orders

Author(s): Louise Amoore
Published in: Review of International Studies, 2022, ISSN 0260-2105
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0260210522000031

The Logic of the Synthetic Supplement in Algorithmic Societies

Author(s): Benjamin N. Jacobsen
Published in: Theory, Culture & Society, Issue 41, 2025, Page(s) 41-56, ISSN 0263-2764
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/02632764231225768

Machine learning, meaning making: On reading computer science texts

Author(s): Louise Amoore; Alexander Campolo; Benjamin Jacobsen; Ludovico Rella
Published in: Big Data and Society, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/20539517231166887

From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority

Author(s): Alexander Campolo; Katia Schwerzmann
Published in: Big Data and Society, Issue 10 (2), 2023, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/20539517231188725

Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements

Author(s): Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Kristian Bondo Hansen, Mikkel Flyverbom, Louise Amoore
Published in: Big Data & Society, Issue 9, 2025, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/20539517221139785

Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation

Author(s): Ludovico Rella
Published in: Social Studies of Science, Issue Online first, 2023, Page(s) Online first, ISSN 0306-3127
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/03063127231185095

A stack made in heaven? Exploring AI-blockchain intersections and their implications for labour and value

Author(s): Ludovico Rella, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
Published in: Progress in Economic Geography, Issue 2, 2024, Page(s) 100026, ISSN 2949-6942
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100026

Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference

Author(s): Benjamin N. Jacobsen
Published in: Theory, Culture & Society, Issue 42, 2025, Page(s) 41-57, ISSN 0263-2764
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/02632764241304687