Data Love : : The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies /

Data Love : : The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies / / Roberto Simanowski.

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Intelligence services, government administrations, businesses, and a growing majority of the population are hooked on the idea that big data can reveal patterns and correlations in everyday life. Initiated by software engineers and carried out through algorithms, the mining of big data has sparked a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
Simanowski, Roberto,
TeilnehmendeR:
Cayley, John.
Pichon, Brigitte.
Rudnytsky, Dorian.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017]
©2016
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I. Beyond the NSA Debate
  • 1. Intelligence Agency Logic
  • 2. Double Indifference
  • 3. Self-Tracking and Smart Things
  • 4. Ecological Data Disaster
  • 5. Cold Civil War
  • Part II. Paradigm Change
  • 6. Data-Mining Business
  • 7. Social Engineers Without a Cause
  • 8. Silent Revolution
  • 9. Algorithms
  • 10. Absence of Theory
  • Part III. The Joy of Numbers
  • 11. Compulsive Measuring
  • 12. The Phenomenology of the Numerable
  • 13. Digital Humanities
  • 14. Lessing's Rejoinder
  • Part IV. Resistances
  • 15. God's Eye
  • 16. Data Hacks
  • 17. On the Right Life in the Wrong One
  • Epilogue
  • Postface
  • Notes
  • Index

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