The Social Power of Algorithms
1st Edition
Published on 23. October 2019
166 pages
978-1-351-20065-3 (ISBN)
Description
The vast circulations of mobile devices, sensors and data mean that the social world is now defined by a complex interweaving of human and machine agency. Key to this is the growing power of algorithms - the decision-making parts of code - in our software dense and data rich environments. Algorithms can shape how we are retreated, what we know, who we connect with and what we encounter, and they present us with some important questions about how society operates and how we understand it.
This book offers a series of concepts, approaches and ideas for understanding the relations between algorithms and power. Each chapter provides a unique perspective on the integration of algorithms into the social world. As such, this book directly tackles some of the most important questions facing the social sciences today. This book was originally published as a special issue of Information, Communication & Society.
This book offers a series of concepts, approaches and ideas for understanding the relations between algorithms and power. Each chapter provides a unique perspective on the integration of algorithms into the social world. As such, this book directly tackles some of the most important questions facing the social sciences today. This book was originally published as a special issue of Information, Communication & Society.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-351-20065-3 (9781351200653)
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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).
Content
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
