The Everyday Life of an Algorithm.

• Author: Neyland, Daniel.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; Ã2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (154 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Everyday Life and the Algorithm -- Abstract -- Opening -- Algorithmic Discontent -- Everyday -- The Structure of the Argument -- References -- Chapter 2 Experimentation with a Probable Human-Shaped Object -- Abstract -- Opening -- What Is Experimentation? -- The Algorithmic Project -- Establishing the Grounds for Experimentation and the Missing Algorithms -- Elegance and the Human-Shaped Object -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Accountability and the Algorithm -- Abstract -- Opening -- Accountability -- Account-ability Through the User Interface and Route Reconstruction -- Account-ability and Accountability Through the Ethics Board -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 The Deleting Machine and Its Discontents -- Abstract -- Opening -- Deletion and the Algorithm -- Deletion and the Challenges of Nothing -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Demonstrating the Algorithm -- Abstract -- Opening -- Future Orientations of Technology -- Integrity and the Algorithm -- Demonstrating Algorithms -- Demonstrating Ethics -- End-User Demonstrations -- Demonstration for Project Funders -- Integrity, Everyday Life and the Algorithm -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 Market Value and the Everyday Life of the Algorithm -- Abstract -- Opening -- Performativity -- Building a Market Value for the Algorithms -- The Everyday Life of the Algorithm -- References -- References -- Index.