Stewardship in the “Age of Algorithms”

Stewardship in the “Age of Algorithms”
Clifford Lynch, First Monday, 2017/12/04
Suppose we wanted to preserve the content in Facebook as it exists right now. What would it take? We might think that if we save the database, that would be sufficient. Not so, argues Clifford Lynch. Without the training data Facebook relies upon, and the algorithms that process that data to show you what you see, we haven't preserved Facebook. More...