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Life by Algorithms - How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World (Paperback)
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Life by Algorithms - How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World (Paperback)
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Computerized processes are everywhere in our society. They are the
automated phone messaging systems that businesses use to screen
calls; the link between student standardized test scores and public
schools' access to resources; the algorithms that regulate patient
diagnoses and reimbursements to doctors. The storage, sorting, and
analysis of massive amounts of information have enabled the
automation of decision-making at an unprecedented level. Meanwhile,
computers have offered a model of cognition that increasingly
shapes our approach to the world. The proliferation of
"roboprocesses" is the result, as editors Catherine Besteman and
Hugh Gusterson observe in this rich and wide-ranging volume, which
features contributions from a distinguished cast of scholars in
anthropology, communications, international studies, and political
science. Although automatic processes are designed to be engines of
rational systems, the stories in Life by Algorithms reveal how they
can in fact produce absurd, inflexible, or even dangerous outcomes.
Joining the call for "algorithmic transparency," the contributors
bring exceptional sensitivity to everyday sociality into their
critique to better understand how the perils of modern technology
affect finance, medicine, education, housing, the workplace, food
production, public space, and emotions--not as separate problems
but as linked manifestations of a deeper defect in the fundamental
ordering of our society.
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