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Orestis Papakyriakopoulos and Arwa Michelle Mboya, article co-authors, performed a socio-computational interrogation of the google search by image algorithm, a main component of the google search engine. By drawing from Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction, they treated the algorithm as a subject that was shaped (trained) by a specific culture and hence produces and reproduces the conditions of its creation. In this way, the algorithm functioned as a window for understanding the attitudes of its designers, owners, and the ones existing in the dataset it was trained on. The co-authors learned from the algorithm by presenting it with more than 40 thousands faces of all ages and more than four races (prompts) and collecting and analyzing the assigned labels (responses) with the appropriate statistical tools. In this way, the co-authors uncovered a small portion of the algorithm’s beliefs, values, knowledge and skills, and used its visual understanding of humans and their appeara

Orestis papakyriakopoulosArwa michelle mboyaTechnical university of munichNational technical university of athensMassachusetts institute of technology centerMedia labNational technical universityTechnical universityMassachusetts instituteJean butcherதொழில்நுட்ப பல்கலைக்கழகம் ஆஃப் முனிச்தேசிய தொழில்நுட்ப பல்கலைக்கழகம் ஆஃப் ஏதென்ஸ்மாசசூசெட்ஸ் நிறுவனம் ஆஃப் தொழில்நுட்பம் மையம்மீடியா ஆய்வகம்தேசிய தொழில்நுட்ப பல்கலைக்கழகம்தொழில்நுட்ப பல்கலைக்கழகம்