WEEK 12

Tarleton Gillespie- The Relevance of Algorithms

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Katherine Hayles- Critical Inquiry

Algorithm- a precise way of explaining how to do something.  Non-computer algorithms are knitting, tying your shoes, the traditionally 5 paragraph essay.  Algorithms are used with technology for search engines. They are the precise ways to look up information.  The way you utilize these algorithms gives you the "trending" site for the topic you wish to search. "Trending" refers to the most visited sites.  "power to enable and assign meaningfulness, managing how information is perceived by users, the 'distribution of the sensible.'" (Langlois) The way algorithms work properly is by 6 rules or guidelines.  1) Patterns of inclusion, 2) Cycles of anticipation, 3) The evaluation of relevance, 4) The promise of algorithmic objectivity, 5) Entanglement with practice, and 6) The production of calculated publics.  

Code is an algorithm written in a computer language.  There are 2 different types of language, 1) natural or human language, 2) computer code or computer language.  Code is all involved in technology.  As I type these words, a code is being encrypted in the background, creating the letters that create the words. 

(alll I Wannnt for chrismas is yuu. /All I want for Christmas is you.)

A code is written in the program of this blog page to correct incorrect words with auto correct, example is above. 

We have all be so used to using these programs and devices that we don't even realize or understand how deep code is intertwined in our daily lives.  Everyone uses a computer, phone, tv, car, radio, etc at least one of these once a day.  Code can be destroyed or altered and that causes glitches or mods of the original code.  This is a sequence, usually of 0's and 1's and it is how you alter the sequence of the numbers that creates and alters the code for everything technological.  

Original Image                                    Glitched (Altered Code) Image