If...Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics [Audiobook] download free by Taina Bucher
- Listen audiobook: If...Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics
- Author: Taina Bucher
- Release date: 2018/2/25
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9780190493035
- Rating: 7.72 of 10
- Votes: 321
- Review by: Wesley Knowles
- Review rating: 9.44 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/16
- Duration: 2H45M34S in 256 kbps (43.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, AC3, WMA, MPEG4, FLAC, MP3 (compression RAR, EML, TBZ, 7Z, ZIP, DMG)
- Total pages original book: 216
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M25S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 shapedby 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, tocreate 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 ofalgorithmic 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-discursivedimensions of software.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Artificial Intelligence, Politics & Government, Media Studies, Media, Information & Communication Industries, Communication Studies, Impact Of Science & Technology On Society, Algorithms & Data Structures, Ethical & Social Aspects Of Computing, Computing: General
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 26.58 USD
- Dimensions: 157x234x13mm
- Weight: 300g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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