If... then : algorithmic power and politics

We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix collaborative filtering algorithms choose the media products we consume. Rather than looking at how technologies shape or are shap...

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Auteur principal : Bucher Taina (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : If... then : algorithmic power and politics / Taina Bucher
Publié : New York : Oxford University Press , C 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-200 p.)
Collection : Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
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Résumé : We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix collaborative filtering algorithms choose the media products we consume. Rather than looking at how technologies shape or are shaped by political institutions, this book is concerned with the ways in which informational infrastructure may be considered political in its capacity to shape social and culturallife. Setting out to explore both the specific uses of algorithms and the cultural forms they generate, this book offers a novel understanding of the power and politics of algorithmic life as grounded in case studies that explore the material-discursive dimensions of software
ISBN : 978-0-19-049302-8
978-0-19-049303-5