Elena Esposito - Selected Publications#

From Pool to Profile: Social Consequences of Algorithmic Prediction in Insurance (with Alberto Cevolini). Big Data & Society 7(2), 2020.

What’s Observed in a Rating? Rankings as Orientation in the Face of Uncertainty (with David Stark). Theory, Culture & Society, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276419826276

Systemic Integration and the Need for De-Integration in Pandemic Times. Sociologica, 14(1): 3-20, May 2020. ISSN 1971-8853. https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/10853> . doi:https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/10853 (German translation in Markus Heidingsfelder (Ed.) Corona: Weltgesellschaft im Ausnahmezustand. Weilerswist: Velbrück, 2020)

Organizing without Understanding? Lists in Ancient and in Digital Cultures. Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, 2017, 47(3): 351-359. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41244-017-0064-4.

Artificial Communication? The Production of Contingency by Algorithms. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 2017, 46(4): 249–265. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2017-1014

Predicted Uncertainty: Volatility Calculus and the Indeterminacy of the Future. Pp. 219-235 in Jens Beckert and Richard Bronk (Eds.) Uncertain Futures. Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Algorithmic memory and the right to be forgotten on the web. Big Data & Society 2017, 4(1). DOI: 10.1177/2053951717703996.

Limits of Interpretation, Closure of Communication. Umberto Eco and Niklas Luhmann Observing Texts. Pp.171-184 in Anders la Cour and Andreas Philippopoloulos-Mihalopoulos (Eds.) Luhmann Observed. Radical Theoretical Encounters. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Digital prophecies and web intelligence. Pp.121-142 in Mireille Hildebrandt and Katja de Vries (Eds.), Privacy, Due Process and the Computional Turn. The philosophy of law meets the philosophy of technology. Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2013.

La memoria sociale. Mezzi per comunicare e modi di dimenticare, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2001.