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Algorithms are everywhere. From the advancing ordering powers exercised through machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to the mundane application of recommendation systems and news-feed filtering, and onto the vast and automated storage, analysis, sorting, retrieval and circulation of data. Algorithmic ways of seeing, knowing and thinking have become powerful. This book explores how these algorithms are sites of acute tensions. This book argues that these forms of algorithmic thinking can only really be understood through a focus on their tensions. It uncovers the social and cultural dynamics of these systems, asking how we might understand the forces that shape and are shaped by the underpinning desire to automate. Drawing upon a range of resources, the chapters develop a series of concepts for understanding the framing, envisioning and implementation of algorithms. This book will be of interest to anyone who is concerned with the rise of algorithms, the modes of reasoning that circulate within them, and way that algorithmic thinking permeates society.

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Author

David Beer

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781529212914

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Sociology, Computer Science