ISBN:
9781138852839
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (213 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Algorithmic Life : Calculative Devices in the Age of Big Data
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Electronic data processing ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I Algorithmic life -- 1 The public and its algorithms: comparing and experimenting with calculated publics -- 2 The libraryness of calculative devices: artificially intelligent librarians and their impact on information consumption -- PART II Calculation in the age of big data -- 3 Experiencing a personalised augmented reality: users of Foursquare in urban space -- 4 A politics of redeployment: malleable technologies and the localisation of anticipatory calculation -- 5 Seeing the invisible algorithm: the practical politics of tracking the credit trackers -- PART III Signal, visualise, calculate -- 6 Bodies of information: data, distance and decision-making at the limits of the war prison -- 7 Data anxieties: objectivity and difference in early Vietnam War computing -- 8 'Seeing futures': politics of visuality and affect -- PART IV Affective devices -- 9 Love's algorithm: the perfect parts for my machine -- 10 Calculating obesity, pre-emptive power and the politics of futurity: the case of Change4Life -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Algorithmic life; 1 The public and its algorithms: comparing and experimenting with calculated publics; 2 The libraryness of calculative devices: artificially intelligent librarians and their impact on information consumption; PART II Calculation in the age of big data; 3 Experiencing a personalised augmented reality: users of Foursquare in urban space; 4 A politics of redeployment: malleable technologies and the localisation of anticipatory calculation
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Seeing the invisible algorithm: the practical politics of tracking the credit trackersPART III Signal, visualise, calculate; 6 Bodies of information: data, distance and decision-making at the limits of the war prison; 7 Data anxieties: objectivity and difference in early Vietnam War computing; 8 'Seeing futures': politics of visuality and affect; PART IV Affective devices; 9 Love's algorithm: the perfect parts for my machine; 10 Calculating obesity, pre-emptive power and the politics of futurity: the case of Change4Life; Index
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