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If...Then
Algorithmic Power and Politics
Taschenbuch von Taina Bucher
Sprache: Englisch

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We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix collaborative filtering algorithms choose the media products we consume. As such, we live algorithmic lives. Life, however, is not blindly controlled or determined by algorithms. Nor are we simply victims of an ever-expanding artificial intelligence. Rather than looking at how technologies shape or are shaped by political institutions, this book is concerned with the ways in which informational infrastructure may be considered political in its capacity to shape social and cultural life. It looks specifically at the conditions of algorithmic life -- how algorithms work, both materially and discursively, to create the conditions for sociality and connectivity. The book argues that the most important aspect of algorithms is not what they are in terms of their specific technical details but rather how they become part of social practices and how different people enlist them as powerful brokers of information, communication and society. If we truly want to engage with the promises of automation and predictive analytics entailed by the promises of "big data," we also need to understand the contours of algorithmic life that condition such practices. Setting out to explore both the specific uses of algorithms and the cultural forms they generate, this book offers a novel understanding of the power and politics of algorithmic life as grounded in case studies that explore the material-discursive dimensions of software.
We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix collaborative filtering algorithms choose the media products we consume. As such, we live algorithmic lives. Life, however, is not blindly controlled or determined by algorithms. Nor are we simply victims of an ever-expanding artificial intelligence. Rather than looking at how technologies shape or are shaped by political institutions, this book is concerned with the ways in which informational infrastructure may be considered political in its capacity to shape social and cultural life. It looks specifically at the conditions of algorithmic life -- how algorithms work, both materially and discursively, to create the conditions for sociality and connectivity. The book argues that the most important aspect of algorithms is not what they are in terms of their specific technical details but rather how they become part of social practices and how different people enlist them as powerful brokers of information, communication and society. If we truly want to engage with the promises of automation and predictive analytics entailed by the promises of "big data," we also need to understand the contours of algorithmic life that condition such practices. Setting out to explore both the specific uses of algorithms and the cultural forms they generate, this book offers a novel understanding of the power and politics of algorithmic life as grounded in case studies that explore the material-discursive dimensions of software.
Über den Autor
Taina Bucher is Associate Professor of Communication and IT at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the power and politics of algorithms in everyday life at the intersection of media studies, sociology and science, and technology studies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Chapter 1 - Introduction: Programmed Sociality

  • Chapter 2 - The Multiplicity of Algorithms

  • Chapter 3 - Neither Black Nor Box: (Un)knowing Algorithms

  • Chapter 4 - Life at the Top: Engineering Participation

  • Chapter 5 - Affective Landscapes: Everyday Encounters with Algorithms

  • Chapter 6 - Programming the News: When Algorithms Come to Matter

  • Chapter 7 - Conclusion: Algorithmic Life

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190493035
ISBN-10: 0190493038
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bucher, Taina
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Taina Bucher
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,369 kg
Artikel-ID: 111268280
Über den Autor
Taina Bucher is Associate Professor of Communication and IT at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the power and politics of algorithms in everyday life at the intersection of media studies, sociology and science, and technology studies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Chapter 1 - Introduction: Programmed Sociality

  • Chapter 2 - The Multiplicity of Algorithms

  • Chapter 3 - Neither Black Nor Box: (Un)knowing Algorithms

  • Chapter 4 - Life at the Top: Engineering Participation

  • Chapter 5 - Affective Landscapes: Everyday Encounters with Algorithms

  • Chapter 6 - Programming the News: When Algorithms Come to Matter

  • Chapter 7 - Conclusion: Algorithmic Life

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190493035
ISBN-10: 0190493038
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bucher, Taina
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Taina Bucher
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,369 kg
Artikel-ID: 111268280
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