The Everyday Life of an Algorithm - Brossura

Neyland, Daniel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1013275888 ISBN 13: 9781013275883

Casa editrice: Saint Philip Street Press, 2020

Riassunto

This open access book begins with an algorithm-a set of IF...THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding forms of experimentation. Here the algorithm must prove its ability to get a grip on everyday life if it is to become an ordinary feature of the settings where it is being put to work. Through investigating the everyday life of the algorithm, the book opens a conversation with existing social science research that tends to focus on the power and opacity of algorithms. In this book we have unique access to the algorithm's design, development and testing, but can also bear witness to its fragility and dependency on others.

This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Saint Philip Street Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1013275888
• ISBN 13: 9781013275883
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 156
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile