The Everyday Life of an Algorithm / by Daniel Neyland.
2019
HM846-851
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Title
The Everyday Life of an Algorithm / by Daniel Neyland.
Author
Neyland, Daniel., author
ISBN
9783030005788
303000578X
9783030005771
3030005771
9783030005795 (print)
3030005798
303000578X
9783030005771
3030005771
9783030005795 (print)
3030005798
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (IX, 151 pages 14 illustrations, 12 illustrations in color.) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-00578-8 doi
Call Number
HM846-851
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.483
Summary
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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Print version: 9783030005771
Print version: 9783030005795
Print version: 9783030005795
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Everyday life and the algorithm
2. Experimentation with a probable human-shaped object
3. Accountability and the algorithm
4. The deleting machine and its discontents
5. Demonstrating the algorithm
6. Market value and the everyday life of the algorithm.
2. Experimentation with a probable human-shaped object
3. Accountability and the algorithm
4. The deleting machine and its discontents
5. Demonstrating the algorithm
6. Market value and the everyday life of the algorithm.