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The Everyday Life of an Algorithm / by Daniel Neyland.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neyland, Daniel., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science.
- Technology--Sociological aspects.
- Technology.
- Computers and civilization.
- Data structures (Computer science).
- Information theory.
- Machine theory.
- Science and Technology Studies.
- Science, Technology and Society.
- Computers and Society.
- Data Structures and Information Theory.
- Formal Languages and Automata Theory.
- Local Subjects:
- Science and Technology Studies.
- Science, Technology and Society.
- Computers and Society.
- Data Structures and Information Theory.
- Formal Languages and Automata Theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (IX, 151 p. 14 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2019.
- Place of Publication:
- 2018.
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This open access book begins with an algorithm-a set of IF...THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding forms of experimentation. Here the algorithm must prove its ability to get a grip on everyday life if it is to become an ordinary feature of the settings where it is being put to work. Through investigating the everyday life of the algorithm, the book opens a conversation with existing social science research that tends to focus on the power and opacity of algorithms. In this book we have unique access to the algorithm's design, development and testing, but can also bear witness to its fragility and dependency on others.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Everyday life and the algorithm
- 2. Experimentation with a probable human-shaped object
- 3. Accountability and the algorithm
- 4. The deleting machine and its discontents
- 5. Demonstrating the algorithm
- 6. Market value and the everyday life of the algorithm.
- ISBN:
- 9783030005788
- 303000578X
- OCLC:
- 1108565603
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