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We are living in algorithmic times. From machine learning and
artificial intelligence to blockchain or simpler newsfeed
filtering, automated systems can transform the social world in ways
that are just starting to be imagined. Redefining these emergent
technologies as the new systems of knowing, pioneering scholar
David Beer examines the acute tensions they create and how they are
changing what is known and what is knowable. Drawing on cases
ranging from the art market and the smart home, through to
financial tech, AI patents and neural networks, he develops key
concepts for understanding the framing, envisioning and
implementation of algorithms. This book will be of interest to
anyone who is concerned with the rise of algorithmic thinking and
the way it permeates society.
We are living in algorithmic times. From machine learning and
artificial intelligence to blockchain or simpler newsfeed
filtering, automated systems can transform the social world in ways
that are just starting to be imagined. Redefining these emergent
technologies as the new systems of knowing, pioneering scholar
David Beer examines the acute tensions they create and how they are
changing what is known and what is knowable. Drawing on cases
ranging from the art market and the smart home, through to
financial tech, AI patents and neural networks, he develops key
concepts for understanding the framing, envisioning and
implementation of algorithms. This book will be of interest to
anyone who is concerned with the rise of algorithmic thinking and
the way it permeates society.
The vast circulations of mobile devices, sensors and data mean that
the social world is now defined by a complex interweaving of human
and machine agency. Key to this is the growing power of algorithms
- the decision-making parts of code - in our software dense and
data rich environments. Algorithms can shape how we are retreated,
what we know, who we connect with and what we encounter, and they
present us with some important questions about how society operates
and how we understand it. This book offers a series of concepts,
approaches and ideas for understanding the relations between
algorithms and power. Each chapter provides a unique perspective on
the integration of algorithms into the social world. As such, this
book directly tackles some of the most important questions facing
the social sciences today. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Information, Communication & Society.
Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about
our lives. They repackage our past content as 'memories' and
deliver them back to us. But how does that change the way we
remember? Drawing on original qualitative research as well as
industry documents and reports, this book critically explores the
process behind this new form of memory making. In asking how social
media are beginning to change the way we remember, it will be
essential reading for scholars and students who are interested in
understanding the algorithmically defined spaces of our lives.
Volume I: Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589),
together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional
material, a few documents in summary form. This volume takes the
narrative to January 1586/7 and includes a descriptive list of John
White's drawings of the first colony; the narrative is continued to
1590 and later in the following volume, with which the main
pagination is continuous. Volume II: Texts from Hakluyt's
Principall Navigations (1589), together with the items added by him
in 1600 and much additional material, a few documents in summary
form. This volume takes the narrative from January 1586/7 to 1590
and later. Appended is an article on the language of the Carolina
Algonkian tribes by James A. Geary, with a word-list; a chapter on
the archaeology of the Roanoke settlements; a detailed account of
the MS and printed sources; and a map of Ralegh's Virginia This is
a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first
published in 1955.
Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589), together with
the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material, a few
documents in summary form. This volume takes the narrative to
January 1586/7 and includes a descriptive list of John White's
drawings of the first colony; the narrative is continued to 1590
and later in the following volume (Second Series 105), with which
the main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand
hardback edition of the volume first published in 1955.
A collection of documents, chiefly from English sources, including
a few relating to Ireland, edited with introduction and notes. The
main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 84)
is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of
the volume first published in 1940.
Follows on from Second Series 83, with continuous main pagination.
Includes documents relating to the Munster plantation scheme, 1569,
and the Knollys piracy, 1579. This is a new print-on-demand
hardback edition of the volume first published in 1940. Owing to
technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the
"Map of Narragansett Bay and surroundings, showing landassigned to
the Peekhams in 1583" and "Sir Humfiay Gylbert Knight his charts"
which appeared in the first edition of the work.
Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589), together with
the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material, a few
documents in summary form. This volume follows on from Second
Series 194, with a continuous main pagination, taking the narrative
from January 1586/7 to 1590 and later. Appended is an article on
the language of the Carolina Algonkian tribes by James A. Geary,
with a word-list; a chapter on the archaeology of the Roanoke
settlements; and a detailed account of the MS and printed sources.
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first
published in 1955. Owing to technical constraints the map of
Raleigh's Virginia, 1584-90 which appeared in the original edition
of the book is not included.
This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics
play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the
interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility,
the author explores the interwoven relations between power and
metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources
to place these metrics within their broader historical, political
and social contexts. More specifically, he illuminates the various
ways that metrics implicate our lives - from our work, to our
consumption and our leisure, through to our bodily routines and the
financial and organisational structures that surround us.
Unravelling the power dynamics that underpin and reside within the
so-called big data revolution, he develops the central concept of
Metric Power along with a set of conceptual resources for thinking
critically about the powerful role played by metrics in the social
world today.
This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics
play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the
interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility,
the author explores the interwoven relations between power and
metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources
to place these metrics within their broader historical, political
and social contexts. More specifically, he illuminates the various
ways that metrics implicate our lives - from our work, to our
consumption and our leisure, through to our bodily routines and the
financial and organisational structures that surround us.
Unravelling the power dynamics that underpin and reside within the
so-called big data revolution, he develops the central concept of
Metric Power along with a set of conceptual resources for thinking
critically about the powerful role played by metrics in the social
world today.
The culture we consume is increasingly delivered to us via various
digital on-demand platforms. The last decade has seen platforms
like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Google and the like become
massive players in shaping cultural consumption. But how can we
understand culture once it moves on to big tech platforms? How can
we make sense of the changes this brings to our lives? These
platforms have the power to shape our cultural landscape and to use
data, algorithms and other technological means to shape our
experiences, from what we remember through to what we know and even
the speed and accessibility of culture. This book asks how can we
understand the chaos and messiness of on-demand culture? Beer
suggests that we focus on the quirks and use these as openings to
see inside patterns and dynamics of these new cultural formations.
By exploring the strange quirks that typify our new on-demand
culture, this book seeks to answer these questions. The Quirks of
Digital Culture is a guide to understanding the complex and
unsettling cultural present, whilst also casting an eye on how our
consumption and cultural experiences may unfold in what seems like
an unpredictable future.
A significant new way of understanding contemporary capitalism is
to understand the intensification and spread of data analytics.
This text is about the powerful promises and visions that have led
to the expansion of data analytics and data-led forms of social
ordering. It is centrally concerned with examining the types of
knowledge associated with data analytics and shows that how these
analytics are envisioned is central to the emergence and prominence
of data at various scales of social life. This text aims to
understand the powerful role of the data analytics industry and how
this industry facilitates the spread and intensification of
data-led processes. As such, The Data Gaze is concerned with
understanding how data-led, data-driven and data-reliant forms of
capitalism pervade organisational and everyday life. Using a clear
theoretical approach derived from Foucault and critical data
studies, the text develops the concept of the data gaze and shows
how powerful and persuasive it is. It's an essential and subversive
guide to data analytics and data capitalism.
The vast circulations of mobile devices, sensors and data mean that
the social world is now defined by a complex interweaving of human
and machine agency. Key to this is the growing power of algorithms
- the decision-making parts of code - in our software dense and
data rich environments. Algorithms can shape how we are retreated,
what we know, who we connect with and what we encounter, and they
present us with some important questions about how society operates
and how we understand it. This book offers a series of concepts,
approaches and ideas for understanding the relations between
algorithms and power. Each chapter provides a unique perspective on
the integration of algorithms into the social world. As such, this
book directly tackles some of the most important questions facing
the social sciences today. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Information, Communication & Society.
This book draws upon the work of Georg Simmel to explore the
limits, tensions and dynamism of social life through a close
analysis of the works produced in the final years of his life and
reveals what they might still offer some 100 years later. Focusing
on the relationships between worlds, lives and fragments in these
works, David Beer opens up a conceptual toolkit for understanding
life as both an individual experience and as a deeply social
phenomenon. Taking the reader through artistic and musical forms of
inspiration, to the problems of culture and on to the conceptual
understanding of lived experience, the book illuminates the
richness of Simmel's ideas and thinking. This sophisticated
dialogue with Simmel's lesser known later works will provide fresh
insights for students and scholars of cultural and social theory
and pave the way for a reinvigorated engagement with his ideas.
This book draws upon the work of Georg Simmel to explore the
limits, tensions and dynamism of social life through a close
analysis of the works produced in the final years of his life and
reveals what they might still offer some 100 years later. Focusing
on the relationships between worlds, lives and fragments in these
works, David Beer opens up a conceptual toolkit for understanding
life as both an individual experience and as a deeply social
phenomenon. Taking the reader through artistic and musical forms of
inspiration, to the problems of culture and on to the conceptual
understanding of lived experience, the book illuminates the
richness of Simmel's ideas and thinking. This sophisticated
dialogue with Simmel's lesser known later works will provide fresh
insights for students and scholars of cultural and social theory
and pave the way for a reinvigorated engagement with his ideas.
A significant new way of understanding contemporary capitalism is
to understand the intensification and spread of data analytics.
This text is about the powerful promises and visions that have led
to the expansion of data analytics and data-led forms of social
ordering. It is centrally concerned with examining the types of
knowledge associated with data analytics and shows that how these
analytics are envisioned is central to the emergence and prominence
of data at various scales of social life. This text aims to
understand the powerful role of the data analytics industry and how
this industry facilitates the spread and intensification of
data-led processes. As such, The Data Gaze is concerned with
understanding how data-led, data-driven and data-reliant forms of
capitalism pervade organisational and everyday life. Using a clear
theoretical approach derived from Foucault and critical data
studies, the text develops the concept of the data gaze and shows
how powerful and persuasive it is. It's an essential and subversive
guide to data analytics and data capitalism.
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