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Algorithmic management

Knowledge

Algorithmic management uses software and data to assign, direct, evaluate, and reward work. It makes metrics and interfaces part of managerial communication, raising practical questions about human accountability, proxy measures, worker interpretation, and the ability to challenge consequential automated decisions.

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Model

In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.

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Analytical Frameworks, Typologies & Heuristics

Organizes dimensions, distinctions, types or questions so that a situation can be examined systematically. A framework supplies structure, a typology distinguishes forms, and a heuristic offers a usable way to orient judgment.

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