The Everyday Life of an Algorithm [electronic resource]

• Tác giả: Daniel Neyland
• Ngôn ngữ: ger
• ISBN-13: 978-3030005788
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 303.483 Development of science and technology
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: IX, 151 p. 14 illus., 12 illus. in color. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 169171
• Chủ đề: 1. Computers and civilization; 2. Culture; 3. Data structures (Computer science); 4. Mathematical logic; 5. Technology; 6. Technology-Sociological aspects; 7. Science and Technology Studies; 8. Computers and Society; 9. Culture and Technology; 10. Data Structures and Information Theory; 11. Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages

Tóm tắt

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.