The social power of algorithms. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Beer.
• Editors: Beer, David, 1977-
• Contents: Introduction: The social power of algorithms / David Beer -- 1. Thinking critically about and researching algorithms / Rob Kitchin -- 2. The algorithmic imaginary: exploring the ordinary affects of Facebook algorithms / Taina Bucher -- 3. Algorithmic IF ...THEN rules and the conditions and consequences of power / Daniel Neyland and Norma Moellers -- 4. Algorithmically recognizable: Santorum's Google problem, and Google's Santorum problem / Tarleton Gillespie -- 5. Computing brains: learning algorithms and neurocomputation in the smart city / Ben Williamson -- 6. Scrutinizing an algorithmic technique: the Bayes classifier as interested reading of reality / Bernhard Rieder -- 7. `Hypernudge': Big Data as a mode of regulation by design / Karen Yeung -- 8. Algorithms (and the) everyday / Michele Willson
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (156 pages)
• Subjects: 303.48/33; Algorithms -- Social aspects; Information technology -- Social aspects; Information society; Big data -- Social aspects; Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects; Computers and civilization; Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects; Big data -- Social aspects; Computers and civilization; Information society; Information technology -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351200653; 1351200658
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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