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Discriminating data : correlation, neighborhoods, and the new politics of recognition / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun ; matthematical illustrations by Alex Barnett.
Van Pelt Library QA76.9.B45 C57 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Big data--Social aspects.
- Big data.
- Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Privacy, Right of.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Chun investigates the centrality of race, gender, class, and sexuality to "Big Data" and network analytics"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : how to destroy the world, one solution at a time
- Red pill toxicity, or, Liberation envy
- Correlating eugenics
- The transgressive hypothesis
- Homophily, or, The swarming of the segregated neighborhood
- Proxies, or, reconstructing the unknown
- Algorithmic authenticity
- Correlating ideology, or, What lies at the surface
- Recognizing recognition
- The space between us
- Coda : living in/difference.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780262046220
- 0262046229
- OCLC:
- 1233023915
- Publisher Number:
- 99988903405
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