Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in the Age of Big DataLouise Amoore, Volha Piotukh This book critically explores forms and techniques of calculation that emerge with digital computation, and their implications. The contributors demonstrate that digital calculative devices matter beyond their specific functions as they progressively shape, transform and govern all areas of our life. In particular, it addresses such questions as:
Drawing together different strands of cutting-edge research that is both theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this book makes an important contribution to several areas of scholarship, including the emerging social science field of software studies, and will be a vital resource for students and scholars alike. |
Contents
The Public and its Algorithms Comparing and experimenting with calculated | |
The Libraryness of Calculative Devices Artificially intelligent librarians and their | |
Experiencing a Personalised Augmented Reality Users of Foursquare in urban space | |
A Politics of Redeployment Malleable technologies and the localisation | |
Seeing the Invisible Algorithm The practical politics of tracking the credit | |
Bodies of Information Data distance and decisionmaking at the limits of the | |
Data Anxieties Objectivity and difference in early Vietnam War computing | |
Seeing Futures Politics of visuality and affect | |
Loves Algorithm The perfect parts for my machine | |
Calculating Obesity PreEmptive Power and the Politics of Futurity The case | |
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Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in the Age of Big Data Louise Amoore,Volha Piotukh Limited preview - 2015 |
Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in the Age of Big Data Louise Amoore,Volha Piotukh No preview available - 2012 |
Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in the Age of Big Data Louise Amoore,Volha Piotukh No preview available - 2016 |
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