
Discriminating Data
Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 2. November 2021
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-262-04622-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Chun investigates the centrality of race, gender, class, and sexuality to "Big Data" and network analytics"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Illustrations
69 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-04622-0 (9780262046220)
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Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition
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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media and Professor of Communication and Director of the SFU Digital Democracies Institute. She is the author of Control and Freedom, Programmed Visions, and Updating to Remain the Same, all published by the MIT Press.
Alex Barnett is Group Leader for Numerical Analysis at the Center for Computational Mathematics at the Flatiron Institute in New York. He has published more than 50 research papers in scientific computing, differential equations, fluids, waves, imaging, physics, neuroscience, and statistics.
Alex Barnett is Group Leader for Numerical Analysis at the Center for Computational Mathematics at the Flatiron Institute in New York. He has published more than 50 research papers in scientific computing, differential equations, fluids, waves, imaging, physics, neuroscience, and statistics.
Content
Preface ix
Introduction: How to Destroy the World, One Solution at a Time 1
Red Pill Toxicity, or Liberation Envy 29
1 Correlating Eugenics 35
The Transgressive Hypothesis 75
2 Homophily, or the Swarming of the Segregated Neighborhood 81
3 Algorithmic Authenticity 139
Correlating Ideology, or What Lies at the Surface 173
4 Recognizing Recognition 185
The Space Between Us 231
Coda: Living in Difference 239
Acknowledgments 255
Notes 259
References for Mathematical Illustrations 317
Index 319
Introduction: How to Destroy the World, One Solution at a Time 1
Red Pill Toxicity, or Liberation Envy 29
1 Correlating Eugenics 35
The Transgressive Hypothesis 75
2 Homophily, or the Swarming of the Segregated Neighborhood 81
3 Algorithmic Authenticity 139
Correlating Ideology, or What Lies at the Surface 173
4 Recognizing Recognition 185
The Space Between Us 231
Coda: Living in Difference 239
Acknowledgments 255
Notes 259
References for Mathematical Illustrations 317
Index 319