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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0190493059 

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎9780190493059

Author:   Taina Bucher 

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 not blindly 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 considered political 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 is not what they are in terms of their specific technical details but rather how they become part of social practices and how different people enlist them as powerful brokers of information, communication and society. If we truly want to engage with the promises of automation and predictive analytics entailed by the promises of “big data”, we also need to understand the contours of algorithmic life that condition such practices. 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

If…Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Programmed Sociality
Programmed Sociality
Computable Friendships
Guilt by Association
Outline of the Book
2. The Multiplicity of Algorithms
A Beginning
Algorithms as a Social Concern
Power of Algorithms
Targeting the Algorithm as the Target
3. Neither Black nor Box: (Un)knowing Algorithms
Black Box
Multiple, Processual, Heterogeneous
When Is an Algorithm?
Three Methodological Tactics
Concluding Remarks
4. Life at the Top: Engineering Participation
Facebook and the Hacker Way
Toward a Diagrammatics of News Feed Algorithms
The News Feed
The News Feed Ranking Algorithm
Rethinking Regimes of Visibility
Conclusion
5. Affective Landscapes: Everyday Encounters with Algorithms
Encountering Algorithms
Researching Personal Algorithm Stories
Living with Algorithms
Conclusion
6. Programming the News: When Algorithms Come to Matter
Algorithms in the News
Making Algorithms Matter
The Algorithmic Potential
The (Un)Problematic Algorithm
Humans Have Heart, Computers Do Not
Algorithms as Problematization
Concluding Remarks
7. Conclusion: Algorithmic Life
Technicity
Orientations
Boundary-making Practices

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