Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet - Rilegato

Striphas, Ted

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ISBN 10: 0231206682 ISBN 13: 9780231206686

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2023

Riassunto

Today, algorithms exercise outsize influence on cultural decision-making, shaping and even reshaping the concept of culture. How were automated, computational processes empowered to perform this work? What forces prompted the emergence of algorithmic culture?

Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet is a history of how culture and computation came to be entangled. From Cambridge, England, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, by way of medieval Baghdad, this book pinpoints the critical junctures at which algorithmic culture began to coalesce in language long before it materialized in the technological wizardry of Silicon Valley. Revising and extending the methodology of “keywords,” Ted Striphas examines changing concepts and definitions of culture, including the development of the field of cultural studies, and stresses the importance of language in the history of technology.

Offering historical and interdisciplinary perspective on the relationship of culture and computation, this book provides urgently needed context for the algorithmic injustices that beset the world today.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Ted Striphas is associate professor of media studies and affiliate faculty in information science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control (Columbia, 2009) and coeditor of the journal Cultural Studies.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0231206682
• ISBN 13: 9780231206686
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 333
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile