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Introduction IX 1 Artificial Communication? Algorithms as Interaction Partners 1 2 Organizing without Understanding: Lists in Ancient and Digital Cultures 19 3 Reading Images: Visualization and Interpretation in Digital Text Analysis 31 4 Getting Personal with Algorithms 47 5 Algorithmic Memory and the Right to be Forgotten 65 6 Forgetting Pictures 79 7 The Future of Prediction: From Statistical Uncertainty to Algorithmic Forecasts 87 Conclusion 107 Acknowledgments 113 Notes 115 Bibliography 147 Index 181
Elena Esposito is Professor of Sociology at the University Bielefeld and the University of Bologna.