We are data : algorithms and the making of our digital selves / John Cheney-Lippold.
2017
HM851 .C4446 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
We are data : algorithms and the making of our digital selves / John Cheney-Lippold.
ISBN
9781479857593 (hardcover)
1479857599 (hardcover)
1479857599 (hardcover)
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2017]
Language
English
Description
xiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
HM851 .C4446 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.23/1
Summary
"We are Data explores what identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it. Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not only form knowledge and social relationships in the digital and physical world, but also determine who we are and who we can be, both on and offline. Algorithms create and recreate us, using our data to assign and reassign our gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship status. They can recognize us as celebrities or mark us as terrorists. In this era of ubiquitous surveillance, contemporary data collection entails more than gathering information about us. Entities like Google, Facebook, and the NSA also decide what that information means, constructing our worlds and the identities we inhabit in the process. We have little control over who we algorithmically are. Our identities are made useful not for us--but for someone else. Through a series of entertaining and engaging examples, John Cheney-Lippold draws on the social constructions of identity to advance a new understanding of our algorithmic identities. We Are Data will educate and inspire readers who want to wrest back some freedom in our increasingly surveilled and algorithmically-constructed world."--Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-303) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Categorization : making data useful
Control : algorithm is gonna get you
Subjectivity : who do they think you are?
Privacy : wanted dead or alive
Conclusion : ghosts in the machine.
Categorization : making data useful
Control : algorithm is gonna get you
Subjectivity : who do they think you are?
Privacy : wanted dead or alive
Conclusion : ghosts in the machine.