the metric society

Question 1

ordinal citizenship

Answer 1

=user-facing algorithm, both private and public, organises important aspects of social economic and political life

digital tech is trying to rank

Question 2

elements of ordinal citizenship

Answer 2

inclusion- integrate everyone, in the state, citizenship
meritocracy- express a lot of things in nr- more meritocratic
ordinality- order things, everyone through their digital behaviour has a footprint
individualisation- each of us has a nr- neo-liberalism- the role of the state should facilitate the market
high dimensionality- enlargement BCS everything can be measured
the life of a civilised being- credit score in China

Question 3

metric society

Answer 3

= nr change the way we construct and understand value or desirability
- nr can do harm when not understood correctly
- data receives high recognition- unquestioning acceptance of many of the criteria underpinning quantitative ranking- naturalisation of social injustice

Question 4

digital quantification of the social

Answer 4

=transformation of qualitative differences into quantitative inequalities

commensuration= compare different things based on nr

nr have societal consequences

as we do a lot of things with speech- locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary, how to do things with nr? quantification- need to put things into numbers- marking and commensuration, reactivity, discipline, authority, aesthetics, sociology of nr to go to an ethics of nr