Nick Seaver

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
16 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Nick Seaver is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction and History and Philosophy of Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Seaver has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 2 papers in History and Philosophy of Science. Recurrent topics in Nick Seaver's work include Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (5 papers), Digital Media and Philosophy (2 papers) and Digital Games and Media (2 papers). Nick Seaver is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (5 papers), Digital Media and Philosophy (2 papers) and Digital Games and Media (2 papers). Nick Seaver collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Sweden. Nick Seaver's co-authors include Rachel Douglas‐Jones, Kristoffer Albris, Morten Axel Pedersen and Tero Karppi and has published in prestigious journals such as Annual Review of Anthropology, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Science Technology & Human Values.

In The Last Decade

Nick Seaver

16 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems

2017 505 citations Nick Seaver Big Data & Society profile →
What Should an Anthropology of Algorithms Do?

2018 97 citations Nick Seaver Cultural Anthropology profile →

Peers

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Sibille Merz Germany

Anna Lauren Hoffmann United States

Charles Ess United States

Alison Adam United Kingdom

Simone Natale United Kingdom

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Canada

Lauren Klein United States

Virginia Eubanks United States

John Cheney-Lippold United States

Mari‐Klara Stein Denmark

Sibille Merz Germany

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nick Seaver

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nick Seaver

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All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Seaver, Nick. (2022). Computing Taste. 49 indexed citations

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Karppi, Tero, et al.. (2021). Introduction: Shifting Attention. Science Technology & Human Values. 47(2). 235–242. 2 indexed citations

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Seaver, Nick. (2021). Care and Scale: Decorrelative Ethics in Algorithmic Recommendation. Cultural Anthropology. 36(3). 44 indexed citations

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Douglas‐Jones, Rachel, et al.. (2021). Introduction: Towards an anthropology of data. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 27(S1). 9–25. 38 indexed citations

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Pedersen, Morten Axel, Kristoffer Albris, & Nick Seaver. (2021). The Political Economy of Attention. Annual Review of Anthropology. 50(1). 309–325. 33 indexed citations

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Seaver, Nick. (2021). Everything lies in a space: cultural data and spatial reality. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 27(S1). 43–61. 6 indexed citations

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Seaver, Nick. (2021). Seeing like an infrastructure: avidity and difference in algorithmic recommendation. Cultural Studies. 35(4-5). 771–791. 16 indexed citations

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Seaver, Nick, et al.. (2019). “You Social Scientists Love Mind Games”: Experimenting in the “divide” between data science and critical algorithm studies. Big Data & Society. 6(1). 35 indexed citations

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Seaver, Nick. (2018). What Should an Anthropology of Algorithms Do?. Cultural Anthropology. 33(3). 375–385. 97 indexed citations breakdown →

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Seaver, Nick. (2018). Captivating algorithms: Recommender systems as traps. Journal of Material Culture. 24(4). 421–436. 177 indexed citations

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Seaver, Nick. (2017). Attending to the mediators. Journal of Cultural Economy. 10(3). 309–313. 2 indexed citations

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Seaver, Nick. (2017). Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems. Big Data & Society. 4(2). 1245744498–1245744498. 505 indexed citations breakdown →

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Seaver, Nick. (2015). The nice thing about context is that everyone has it. Media Culture & Society. 37(7). 1101–1109. 58 indexed citations

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Seaver, Nick. (2014). Studying Up: The Ethnography of Technologists. 2 indexed citations

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Seaver, Nick. (2012). Algorithmic Recommendations and Synaptic Functions. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 19 indexed citations

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Seaver, Nick. (2011). “This Is Not a Copy”: Mechanical Fidelity and the Re-Enacting Piano. differences. 22(2-3). 54–73. 8 indexed citations

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