Data love : the seduction and betrayal of digital technologies / Roberto Simanowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simanowski, Roberto, author.

Contributor:

Cayley, John.

Pichon, Brigitte.

Rudnytsky, Dorian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Internet--Moral and ethical aspects.

Digital communications--Social aspects.

Digital communications.

Privacy, Right of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Intelligence services, government administrations, businesses, and a growing majority of the population are hooked on the idea that big data can reveal patterns and correlations in everyday life. Initiated by software engineers and carried out through algorithms, the mining of big data has sparked a silent revolution. But algorithmic analysis and data mining are not simply byproducts of media development or the logical consequences of computation. They are the radicalization of the Enlightenment's quest for knowledge and progress. Data Love argues that the "cold civil war" of big data is taking place not among citizens or between the citizen and government but within each of us.Roberto Simanowski elaborates on the changes data love has brought to the human condition while exploring the entanglements of those who-out of stinginess, convenience, ignorance, narcissism, or passion-contribute to the amassing of ever more data about their lives, leading to the statistical evaluation and individual profiling of their selves. Writing from a philosophical standpoint, Simanowski illustrates the social implications of technological development and retrieves the concepts, events, and cultural artifacts of past centuries to help decode the programming of our present.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Part I. Beyond the NSA Debate

1. Intelligence Agency Logic

2. Double Indifference

3. Self-Tracking and Smart Things

4. Ecological Data Disaster

5. Cold Civil War

Part II. Paradigm Change

6. Data-Mining Business

7. Social Engineers Without a Cause

8. Silent Revolution

9. Algorithms

10. Absence of Theory

Part III. The Joy of Numbers

11. Compulsive Measuring

12. The Phenomenology of the Numerable

13. Digital Humanities

14. Lessing's Rejoinder

Part IV. Resistances

15. God's Eye

16. Data Hacks

17. On the Right Life in the Wrong One

Epilogue

Postface

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231542425

0231542429

OCLC:

957126873