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The secret life of data : navigating hype and uncertainty in the age of algorithmic surveillance / Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert.

MIT Press Direct 2024 Trade Books Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Sinnreich, Aram, author.
Gilbert, Jesse, author.
Series:
The Information Society Series
The information society series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Data privacy.
Metadata--Social aspects.
Metadata.
Big data--Social aspects.
Big data.
Information society.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 285 pages) : illustrations.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
2024.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024].
Summary:
"How cultural and technological objects can reveal more information than their creators or sharers intended, or even imagined, when introduced into new contexts"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction
Data about data (about data)
All data are Big Data
Big Data blues
Our devices are "Smart." but are we?
The secret data of life
The overexamined life
All the world's a stack
Data and democracy
Conclusion: Data afterlives.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
ISBN:
0-262-37781-0
0-262-37780-2
OCLC:
1415253672

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