Computational Power: The Impact of ICT on Law, Society and Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780367566241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 182 str.

Massimo Durante

Opis

The impact of technology is such that it does not leave things as they are: it changes the nature of agents, habits, objects and institutions and hence it subverts the existing order, without necessarily generating a new one.

Spis treści

Introduction. Computational power  1. The information revolution  2. Technology: From instrument to environment  3. Artificial and human intelligence  4. Memory and oblivion  5. Data, information and knowledge  6. Truth and fake news  7. The governance of algorithms  8. The asymmetric distribution of data and rights  9. Exit, voice and loyalty  Conclusion. The shelf of the world

O autorze

Massimo Durante is Professor in Philosophy of Law and Legal Informatics at the Department of Law, University of Turin, Italy. He is coordinator of the Turin Unit of Research for the Law, Science and Technology Joint Doctorate: Rights of the Internet of Everything. His current research concerns issues of law and technology and digital governance from a legal, ethical, and epistemological perspective.