Algorithmic Worldmaking
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Algorithmic Worldmaking
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Author : Jeremy David Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2025-02-15
Algorithmic Worldmaking written by Jeremy David Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-15 with Computers categories.
How algorithms shape democratic discourse and determine the ways we think, talk, and act in networked spaces
Information
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Author : Michele Kennerly
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-19
Information written by Michele Kennerly and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
For decades, we have been told we live in the “information age”—a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and concepts of information are usually considered the provenance of the natural and social sciences, which present them as politically and philosophically neutral. Yet the humanities should and do play an important role in interpreting and critiquing the historical, cultural, and conceptual nature of information. This book is one of two companion volumes that explore theories and histories of information from a humanistic perspective. They consider information as a long-standing feature of social, cultural, and conceptual management, a matter of social practice, and a fundamental challenge for the humanities today. Bringing together essays by prominent critics, Information: Keywords highlights the humanistic nature of information practices and concepts by thinking through key terms. It describes and anticipates directions for how the humanities can contribute to our understanding of information from a range of theoretical, historical, and global perspectives. Together with Information: A Reader, it sets forth a major humanistic vision of the concept of information.
The Oxford Handbook Of Algorithmic Music
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Author : R. T. Dean
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
The Oxford Handbook Of Algorithmic Music written by R. T. Dean and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Music categories.
Featuring chapters by emerging and established scholars as well as by leading practitioners in the field, this Handbook both describes the state of algorithmic composition and also set the agenda for critical research on and analysis of algorithmic music.
Rhetoric And The Making Of Algorithmic Worlds
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Author : Jeremy Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Rhetoric And The Making Of Algorithmic Worlds written by Jeremy Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Algorithms are key for guiding human attention in a chaotic sea of information. Increasingly, algorithms shape social interaction and political change by arranging material and symbolic phenomena. This dissertation studies the patterns that emerge as algorithms and humans operate together in networked ecologies. Centrally, this project asks how algorithms exhibit agency and how human power intersects with algorithmic arrangement. The project opens by revisiting ancient Greek writings, many of which feature kosmos, roughly translated as order. Kosmoss social and material patterns complement posthumanism and new materialism, which assert that the world unfolds through human and non-human interactions. I argue that algorithms exhibit agency in arranging kosmos, though their control is circumscribed by human power. The project then traces algorithmic agency and power in three platforms: Google search, YouTube, and Facebook. Googles algorithms are responsible for ordering relevance, ranking the best results at the top of its search pages. Humans Google bomb to alter algorithmic arrangement, manipulating sites to the top of search results pages for political purposes ranging from defaming Rick Santorum to promoting Holocaust denial. On YouTube, algorithms judge whether content should remain on the site, removing or demonetizing both copyrighted works and offensive content. Unfortunately, as LGBTQ+ members of YouTube have found, this algorithmic judgment can damage communities and endanger lives. Finally, on Facebook, algorithms infer racial identity and offer ethnic affinity advertising that can target individuals perceived to align with racial categories such as African American or Hispanic. Facebook also employs algorithms for moderation, with both machine algorithms and human-executed algorithms searching for hateful and offensive speech. Problematically, Facebooks inference schemes and moderation practices stunted the growth of #BlackLivesMatter and #Ferguson, and otherwise disproportionately harmed black communities, instead of protecting them from hate speech and discrimination. This dissertation traces algorithmic rhetorics through attention to the ethical dynamics of algorithms, to power and discrimination in algorithmic systems, and to the material arrangements of public discourse and performance. Critical attention, public awareness, and swift action can mitigate some of the harms of algorithmic arrangement. This project offers a critical move in developing rhetorical critiques of algorithms by reflecting on the socio-political impacts of algorithmic world-making.
The Economy Of Algorithms
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Author : Marek Kowalkiewicz
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2024-03-05
The Economy Of Algorithms written by Marek Kowalkiewicz and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-05 with Technology & Engineering categories.
An informed general readership, including students and interested non-specialists. Academics from business, sociology, politics, management, science and technology studies and emerging fields such as critical algorithm studies will find it a stimulating and entertaining read. Reflective practitioners who are beginning to question the potential social impacts of their work (see current explosion of tech worker activism).
The World Making Power Of New Media
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Author : Barrie Axford
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-22
The World Making Power Of New Media written by Barrie Axford and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-22 with Political Science categories.
In this new work, Axford seeks to contribute to the development of global theory, particularly where it engages with the contested idea of globality; a concept which musters as consciousness, condition, framework, even system. By examining emergent globalities through the lens of world-making communicative practices and forms, the author demonstrates their transformative social power and underlines the cultural dynamics of globalization. Taking a critical view of much of the current scholarship on emergent globalities, Axford steps outside the rationalist-territorialist conceptions of association and order and takes issue with those who advise there is a widespread 'myth' of media globalization. The book examines global communicative connectivity, using digital, or "new" media – especially the Internet - as the prime exemplar of global process. As well as the academic importance of such themes for theory-building, the strategic, "real-world" impacts of communicative connectivity are palpable. Thus, the welter of debate around the influence of the Internet on democracy, democratization, revolt and collective action generally, have real purchase when discussed in relation to the events of the uprisings in MENA, anti-capitalist protests in London and New York and the tribulations of the EU in recent months/years. Using such exemplars the book assesses claims for the existence and robustness of global society, the significance of cosmopolitan communication and the extent of global consciousness. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of globalization, international relations, and media and cultural studies.
The Ethical Algorithm
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Author : Michael Kearns
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-04
The Ethical Algorithm written by Michael Kearns and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-04 with Computers categories.
Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have made our lives more efficient, more entertaining, and, sometimes, better informed. At the same time, complex algorithms are increasingly violating the basic rights of individual citizens. Allegedly anonymized datasets routinely leak our most sensitive personal information; statistical models for everything from mortgages to college admissions reflect racial and gender bias. Meanwhile, users manipulate algorithms to "game" search engines, spam filters, online reviewing services, and navigation apps. Understanding and improving the science behind the algorithms that run our lives is rapidly becoming one of the most pressing issues of this century. Traditional fixes, such as laws, regulations and watchdog groups, have proven woefully inadequate. Reporting from the cutting edge of scientific research, The Ethical Algorithm offers a new approach: a set of principled solutions based on the emerging and exciting science of socially aware algorithm design. Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth explain how we can better embed human principles into machine code - without halting the advance of data-driven scientific exploration. Weaving together innovative research with stories of citizens, scientists, and activists on the front lines, The Ethical Algorithm offers a compelling vision for a future, one in which we can better protect humans from the unintended impacts of algorithms while continuing to inspire wondrous advances in technology.
The Feel Of Algorithms
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Author : Minna Ruckenstein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-05-23
The Feel Of Algorithms written by Minna Ruckenstein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-23 with Social Science categories.
Why do we feel excited, afraid, and frustrated by algorithms? The Feel of Algorithms brings relatable first-person accounts of what it means to experience algorithms emotionally alongside interdisciplinary social science research, to reveal how political and economic processes are felt in the everyday. People’s algorithm stories might fail to separate fact and misconception, and circulate wishful, erroneous, or fearful views of digital technologies. Yet rather than treating algorithmic folklore as evidence of ignorance, this novel book explains why personal anecdotes are an important source of algorithmic knowledge. Minna Ruckenstein argues that we get to know algorithms by feeling their actions and telling stories about them. The Feel of Algorithms shows how taking everyday algorithmic emotions seriously balances the current discussion, which has a tendency to draw conclusions based on celebratory or oppositional responses to imagined future effects. An everyday focus zooms into experiences of pleasure, fear, and irritation, highlighting how political aims and ethical tensions play out in visions, practices, and emotional responses. This book shows that feelings aid in recognizing troubling practices, and also calls for alternatives that are currently ignored or suppressed.
Migrant World Making
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Author : Sergio F Juárez
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2023-12-01
Migrant World Making written by Sergio F Juárez and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
For most migrants, developing communication strategies in host countries is vital for finding social connections, navigating the pressures of assimilation, and maintaining links to their original cultures. Migrant World Making explores this process of constructing a homeplace by creating a network of communication tools and strategies to connect with multiple communities. Since what it means to be a migrant differs from person to person, the contributors to this edited collection showcase numerous practices migrants adopt to communicate and connect with others as they forge their own identities in globalized yet highly nationalistic societies. With varying aspirations and motives for seeking new homes, migrants build communities by telling stories, engaging in social media activism, protesting, writing scholarly criticism, and using many other modes of communication. To match this variety, the transnational scholars represented here use a wide array of rhetorical, cultural, and communication methodologies and epistemologies to describe what the experience of migration means to those who have lived it.
The Tensions Of Algorithmic Thinking
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Author : David Beer
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2022-11-30
The Tensions Of Algorithmic Thinking written by David Beer and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-30 with Computers categories.
In this pioneering book, David Beer redefines emergent algorithmic technologies as the new systems of knowing. He examines the acute tensions they create and how they are changing what is known and what is knowable.