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Algorithmic Life - Calculative Devices in the Age of Big Data (Paperback)
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Algorithmic Life - Calculative Devices in the Age of Big Data (Paperback)
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This book critically explores forms and techniques of calculation
that emerge with digital computation, and their implications. The
contributors demonstrate that digital calculative devices matter
beyond their specific functions as they progressively shape,
transform and govern all areas of our life. In particular, it
addresses such questions as: How does the drive to make sense of,
and productively use, large amounts of diverse data, inform the
development of new calculative devices, logics and techniques? How
do these devices, logics and techniques affect our capacity to
decide and to act? How do mundane elements of our physical and
virtual existence become data to be analysed and rearranged in
complex ensembles of people and things? In what ways are
conventional notions of public and private, individual and
population, certainty and probability, rule and exception
transformed and what are the consequences? How does the search for
'hidden' connections and patterns change our understanding of
social relations and associative life? Do contemporary modes of
calculation produce new thresholds of calculability and
computability, allowing for the improbable or the merely possible
to be embraced and acted upon? As contemporary approaches to
governing uncertain futures seek to anticipate future events, how
are calculation and decision engaged anew? Drawing together
different strands of cutting-edge research that is both
theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this book makes
an important contribution to several areas of scholarship,
including the emerging social science field of software studies,
and will be a vital resource for students and scholars alike.
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