If...Then - Algorithmic Power and Politics Bucher Taina Assistant Professor of Communication and IT University of CopenhagenPaperback / softback
If...Then - Algorithmic Power and Politics Bucher Taina Assistant Professor of Communication and IT University of CopenhagenPaperback / softback We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms…
Specifikacia If...Then - Algorithmic Power and Politics Bucher Taina Assistant Professor of Communication and IT University of CopenhagenPaperback / softback
If...Then - Algorithmic Power and Politics Bucher Taina Assistant Professor of Communication and IT University of CopenhagenPaperback / softback
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. Life, however, is not blindly controlled or determined by algorithms. As such, we live algorithmic lives.
Rather than looking at how technologies shape or are shaped by 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. Nor are we simply victims of an ever-expanding artificial intelligence. It looks specifically at the conditions of algorithmic life -- how algorithms work, both materially and discursively, to create the conditions for sociality and connectivity.
The book argues that the most important aspect of algorithms is not what