Artificial Communication?
The Production of Contingency by Algorithms
Elena Esposito is Professor of Sociology at the University Bielefeld and at the University of Modena-Reggio Emilia. Working in a systems theory framework, she studies problems of time in social systems, including memory and forgetting, fashion and transience, probability calculus, fiction, and the use the time in finance. Her current research projects focus on the possibility and forms of forgetting on the web, on a sociology of algorithms and on the proliferation of rankings and ratings for the management of information. Esposito's recent publications include The Future of Futures; The Time of Money (2011); Die Fiktion der wahrscheinlichen Realität (2007); Die Verbindlichkeit des Vorübergehenden. Paradoxien der Mode (2004); Soziales Vergessen. Formen und Medien des Gedächtnisses der Gesellschaft (2002); The structures of uncertainty. Performativity and unpredictability in economic operations. Economy & Society, 2013(42), and a debate with David Stark on Observation Theory in Sociologica, 2013(2).
Introduce e modera:
Prof. Riccardo Prandini
Coordinatore del Dottorato in Sociologia e Ricerca sociale
Per ogni ulteriore informazione contattare:
elena.macchioni@unibo.it; matteo.orlandini@unibo.it