The Everyday Life of an Algorithm
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| Title: | The Everyday Life of an Algorithm |
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| Authors: | Neyland, Daniel |
| Publisher Information: | Cham: Springer Nature, 2020. |
| Publication Year: | 2020 |
| Collection: | Books Imported or submitted locally |
| Original Material: | 7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 |
| Subject Terms: | Social sciences, Technology—Sociological aspects, Culture, Technology, Computers and civilization, Data structures (Computer science), Mathematical logic, Cultural studies, Sociology, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, Algorithms and data structures, Mathematical theory of computation |
| Description: | 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. |
| Contents Note: | 313173 |
| Document Type: | book |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 978-3-030-00578-8 3-030-00578-X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-00578-8 |
| Access URL: | http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22916 |
| Rights: | URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| Notes: | 1007245 OCN: 1086553042 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22916 https://www.springer.com/9783030005788 FP7 Ideas: European Research Council European Research Council (ERC) EU collection |
| Accession Number: | edsoap.20.500.12657.22916 |
| Database: | OAPEN Library |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9783030005788 303000578X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-00578-8 |