[PDF Download]->If...Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics Writen - Taina Bucher

If...Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics

By : Taina Bucher

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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. As such, we live algorithmic lives. Life, however, is notblindly controlled or determined by algorithms. Nor are we simply victims of an ever-expanding artificial intelligence. 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 consideredpolitical in its capacity to shape social and cultural life. It looks specifically at the conditions of algorithmic life -- how algorithms work, both materially and discursively, to create the conditions for sociality and connectivity. The book argues that the most important aspect of algorithms isnot what they are in terms of their specific technical details but rather how they become part of social

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Author : Taina Bucher

Pages : 216 pages

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

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ISBN-10 : 0190493038

ISBN-13 : 9780190493035

 
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