The Social Power of Algorithms (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Beer, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Algorithms can shape how we are retreated, what we know, who we connect with and what we encounter. As they continue to spread throughout our software dense and data rich social world, this book reflects on the power of these decision-making bits of code. This book was first published as a special issue of Information, Communication & Society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351200660
• Artikelnr.: 57966765

Autorenporträt

David Beer is Reader in Sociology at the University of York, UK. He is the author of Metric Power (2016), Punk Sociology (2014), Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation (2013), and New Media: The Key Concepts (2008, with Nicholas Gane).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The social power of algorithms 1. Thinking critically about
and researching algorithms 2. The algorithmic imaginary: exploring the
ordinary affects of Facebook algorithms 3. Algorithmic IF ...THEN rules and
the conditions and consequences of power 4. Algorithmically recognizable:
Santorum's Google problem, and Google's Santorum problem 5. Computing
brains: learning algorithms and neurocomputation in the smart city 6.
Scrutinizing an algorithmic technique: the Bayes classifier as interested
reading of reality 7. 'Hypernudge': Big Data as a mode of regulation by
design 8. Algorithms (and the) everyday