Logics, tensions and negotiations in the everyday life of a news-ranking algorithm

This article attends to tensions and negotiations surrounding the introduction development of a news-ranking algorithm in Swedish daily. Approaching algorithms as culture, being composed collective human practices, study emphasizes socio-institutional dynamics everyday life algorithm. The focus on is justified from an institutional perspective operationalized through analytical framework logics. Empirically based interviews with 14 different in-house workers at daily, journalists well programmers market actors. shows that logics connected both journalism programming co-developed Tensions their around these contributed its very development. One example labeling editor-led, allowing oversee some parameters. Social practices newsroom, such Algorithm-Coffee, was also important for In other words, actors, between them how were negotiated, co-constituted by itself.