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Dear Big Data Sur community,</div>
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I hope this message finds you all well. This is just a brief message to share a recent article that I coauthored titled:
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"Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats"</a> (open access). The article is related to my chapter in the book edited by Stefania, Emiliano, and Silvia: "COVID 19 from the margins", so
I hope it can be relevant for the members of this list. </div>
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The article describes the quotidian operations of street-level bureaucrats working for a system of algorithmic classification that determines the distribution of social welfare benefits in Peru. The article presents a case of construction of data in a context
of institutional and material precarity, where bureaucrats have to paradoxically bend the formal rules of the system they work for so they can produce a legible population eligible for state services.</div>
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Many thanks for your attention and I hope it is of interest.</div>
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All the best,</div>
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Diego</div>
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Diego Cerna-Aragon</div>
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