Message from the Unseen World, an installation of a Turing-inspired algorithm reciting a poem. by Nick Drake. Roger Marks/Flickr February 6, 2018 Digital public: looking at what algorithms actually do Konrad Lischka, Bertelsmann Stiftung and Christian Stöcker, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Today’s communications platforms and the algorithms that power them have led to a radical change in how public discourse is conducted and public opinion formed.