(Dis)Obedience in Digital Societies : : Perspectives on the Power of Algorithms and Data / / ed. by Sven Quadflieg, Klaus Neuburg, Simon Nestler.

• Funder: BMBF Fördervorhaben 16TOA002
• MitwirkendeR: Ahlert, Moritz,; Arnold, Florian,; Dill, Katja,; Guijarro Santos, Victoria,; Hecht, Christina,; Houwing, Lotte,; Höfler, Carolin,; Lütz, Fabian,; Mellentin, Johanna,; Nestler, Simon,; Neuburg, Klaus,; Pfeffer, Matthias,; Quadflieg, Sven,; Schmidt, Francesca,; Schon, Bernd Friedrich,; Thum, Robert, 1940-; Trapp, Harald,; Weiss, Fabian,
• HerausgeberIn: Nestler, Simon,; Neuburg, Klaus,; Quadflieg, Sven,
• Author: BMBF Fördervorhaben 16TOA002
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Digitale Gesellschaft ; 37
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)

Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon - they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into our political and social system. Algorithms shape human behavior on various levels: they influence not only the aesthetic reception of the world but also the well-being and social interaction of their users. They act and intervene in a political and social context. As algorithms influence individual behavior in these social and political situations, their power should be the subject of critical discourse - or even lead to active disobedience and to the need for appropriate tools and methods which can be used to break the algorithmic power.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Content -- (Dis)obeying Algorithms? Introductory Thoughts on the Power of Algorithms and the Possible Necessity of Resisting it -- The Dialectics of Dis-Obedience. Notes from the Crystal Palace -- Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence and Power -- Embodied Algorithmic Optimization. How Our Bodies are Becoming a Product of Code -- The Lock Down City and the Utopian Program of Open Interfaces -- Hacking Google Maps -- The Algorithmic Construction of Space -- Torn Between Autonomy and Algorithmic Management. (Dis)Obedience of Solo Self-Employed Working via Digital Platforms -- A Crack in the Algorithm’s Facade. A Fundamental Rights Perspective on “Efficiency” and “Neutrality” Narratives of Algorithms -- When Search Engines Discriminate. The Posthuman Mimesis of Gender Bias -- Discrimination by Correlation. Towards Eliminating Algorithmic Biases and Achieving Gender Equality -- The Power of Algorithms and the Structural Transformation of the Digital Public -- Reclaim your Face and the Streets. Why Facial Recognition, and Other Biometric Surveillance Technology in Public Spaces, Should be Banned -- Identity 5.0: How to Fight Algorithms Online (Fast). Heuristic Compressions of Personality Concepts (Dis)Obedient to Algorithmic Power—from Film, Television and a Cult Classic Novel -- About the Authors