The Social Power of Algorithms

ISBN-13: 9780367592813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 156 str.

David Beer

Opis

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 & Soc

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).