Everyday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies

ISBN-13: 9780367773380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 234 str.

Sarah Pink; Martin Berg; Deborah Lupton

Opis

An international team of leading scholars bring together research developed across anthropology, sociology, media and communication studies, and ethnology, which shows how by re-humanising automation, we can gain deeper understandings of its societal impacts.

Spis treści

Introduction: Everyday Automation: setting a research agenda PART I: Challenging dominant narratives of automation 1. Imagining Mundane Automation: Historical Trajectories of Meaning Making around Technological Change 2. Trust, Ethics and Automation: Anticipatory Imaginaries in Everyday Life 3. The Quantified Pandemic: Digitised Surveillance, Containment and Care in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis 4. Less Work for Teacher? The Ironies of Automated Decision-making in Schools PART II Embedding automated systems in the everyday 5. Alexa’s Got a Hunch: The Human Decisions behind Programming Emotion-sensing and Caregiving into Digital Assistants 6. Framing Fashion: Human-Machine Learning and the Amazon Echo Look 7. Coffee with the Algorithm: Imaginaries, Maintenance and Care in the Everyday Life of a News-ranking Algorithm 8. Everyday AI at Work: Self-tracking and Automated Communication for Smart Work 9. Exploring ADM in Clinical Decision-Making: Healthcare Experts Encountering Digital Automation PART III Experimenting with Automation in Society 10. Hate it? Automate it!: Thinking and Doing Robotic Process Automation and Beyond 11. Smart Thermostats and the Algorithmic Control of Thermal Comfort 12. Prisoners Training AI: Ghosts, Humans and Values in Data Labour 13. Investigating ADM in Shared Mobility: A Design Ethnographic Approach 14. Ad Accountability Online: A Methodological Approach.