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This ground-breaking and timely book explores how big data,
artificial intelligence and algorithms are creating new types of
agency, and the impact that this is having on our lives and the
rule of law. Addressing the issues in a thoughtful,
cross-disciplinary manner, the authors examine the ways in which
data-driven agency is transforming democratic practices and the
meaning of individual choice. Leading scholars in law, philosophy,
computer science and politics analyse the latest innovations in
data science and machine learning, assessing the actual and
potential implications of these technologies. They investigate how
this affects our understanding of such concepts as agency,
epistemology, justice, transparency and democracy, and advocate a
precautionary approach that takes the effects of data-driven agency
seriously without taking it for granted. Scholars and students of
law, ethics and philosophy, in particular legal, political and
democratic theory, will find this book a compelling and invaluable
read, as will computer scientists interested in the implications of
their own work. It will also prove insightful for academics and
activists working on privacy, fairness and anti-discrimination.
Contributors include: J.E. Cohen, G. de Vries, S. Delacroix, P.
Dumouchel, C. Ess, M. Garnett, E.H. Gerding, R. Gomer, C. Graber,
M. Hildebrandt, C. Maple, K. O'Hara, P. Ohm, m.c. schraefel, D.
Stevens, N. van Dijk, M. Veale
This ground-breaking and timely book explores how big data,
artificial intelligence and algorithms are creating new types of
agency, and the impact that this is having on our lives and the
rule of law. Addressing the issues in a thoughtful,
cross-disciplinary manner, the authors examine the ways in which
data-driven agency is transforming democratic practices and the
meaning of individual choice. Leading scholars in law, philosophy,
computer science and politics analyse the latest innovations in
data science and machine learning, assessing the actual and
potential implications of these technologies. They investigate how
this affects our understanding of such concepts as agency,
epistemology, justice, transparency and democracy, and advocate a
precautionary approach that takes the effects of data-driven agency
seriously without taking it for granted. Scholars and students of
law, ethics and philosophy, in particular legal, political and
democratic theory, will find this book a compelling and invaluable
read, as will computer scientists interested in the implications of
their own work. It will also prove insightful for academics and
activists working on privacy, fairness and anti-discrimination.
Contributors include: J.E. Cohen, G. de Vries, S. Delacroix, P.
Dumouchel, C. Ess, M. Garnett, E.H. Gerding, R. Gomer, C. Graber,
M. Hildebrandt, C. Maple, K. O'Hara, P. Ohm, m.c. schraefel, D.
Stevens, N. van Dijk, M. Veale
Privacy is one of the most contested concepts of our time. This
book sets out a rigorous and comprehensive framework for
understanding debates about privacy and our rights to it. Much of
the conflict around privacy comes from a failure to recognise
divergent perspectives. Some people argue about human rights, some
about social conventions, others about individual preferences and
still others about information and data processing. As a result,
‘privacy’ has become the focus of competing definitions,
leading some to denounce the ‘disarray’ in the field. But as
this book shows, disagreements about the role and value of privacy
obscure a large amount of agreement on the topic. Privacy is not a
technical term of law, cybersecurity or sociology, but a word in
common use that adequately expresses a few simple and related
ideas. -- .
This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 9th European
Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW '96, held in Nottingham, UK,
in May 1996.
The 23 revised full papers included address the most relevant
theoretical and applicational aspects of knowledge acquisition with
a certain emphasis on the acquisition of knowledge for the
modelling or automation of complex problem-solving behaviour. The
volume is organized in sections on theoretical and general issues,
eliciting knowledge from textual or other sources, data-mining,
group elicitation, and planning.
Author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, and inventor
of the term 'psychedelic', Aldous Huxley was a global trend-setter
ahead of his time. In this new biography Dr Kieron O'Hara explores
the life of this great visionary, charting his transformation from
society satirist to Californian guru-mystic through an insightful
analysis of his life's work. Combining thoughtful biography,
easy-to-use reading notes, and an insightful exploration of
Huxley's continuing legacy, Huxley: A Beginner's Guide is the
definitive introduction to one of the twentieth century's most
influential thinkers.
The book reviews the history of the 1975 Common Market referendum,
looking at the story of the campaign, the larger-than-life
personalities behind it, the way it changed our constitution
forever - but also how it failed to settle the European argument.
Lessons are then drawn for the likely 2006 referendum on the
European Constitution.
Blamed for the bloody disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the
Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger
of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule, the
Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive. To this day
historians disagree over when it was, where it was, and what it was
(and sometimes, still is). Kieron O'Hara deftly traverses these
conflicts, presenting the history, politics, science, religion,
arts, and social life of the Enlightenment not as a simple set of
easily enumerated ideas, but an evolving conglomerate that spawned
a very diverse set of thinkers, from the radical Rousseau to the
conservative Burke.
This book (published to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth),
argues that the novelist Joseph Conrad's work speaks directly to us
in a way that none of his contemporaries can. Conrad's scepticism,
pessimism, emphasis on the importance and fragility of community,
and the difficulties of escaping our history are important tools
for understanding the political world in which we live. He is
prepared to face a future where progress is not inevitable, where
actions have unintended consequences, and where we cannot know the
contexts in which we act."Heart of Darkness" uncovers the rotten
core of the Eurocentric myth of imperialism as a way of bringing
enlightenment to 'native peoples' - lessons which are relevant once
more as the Iraq debacle has undermined the claims of liberal
democracy to universal significance.The result can hardly be called
a political programme, but Conrad's work is clearly suggestive of a
sceptical conservatism of the sort described by the author in his
2005 book "After Blair: Conservatism Beyond Thatcher". The
difficult part of a Conradian philosophy is the profundity of his
pessimism - far greater than Oakeshott, with whom Conrad does share
some similarities (though closer to a conservative politician like
Salisbury).Conrad's work poses the question of how far we as a
society are prepared to face the consequences of our ignorance.
Social machines are a type of network connected by interactive
digital devices made possible by the ubiquitous adoption of
technologies such as the Internet, the smartphone, social media and
the read/write World Wide Web, connecting people at scale to
document situations, cooperate on tasks, exchange information, or
even simply to play. Existing social processes may be scaled up,
and new social processes enabled, to solve problems, augment
reality, create new sources of value, and disrupt existing
practice. This book considers what talents one would need to
understand or build a social machine, describes the state of the
art, and speculates on the future, from the perspective of the
EPSRC project SOCIAM - The Theory and Practice of Social Machines.
The aim is to develop a set of tools and techniques for
investigating, constructing and facilitating social machines, to
enable us to narrow down pragmatically what is becoming a wide
space, by asking 'when will it be valuable to use these methods on
a sociotechnical system?' The systems for which the use of these
methods adds value are social machines in which there is rich
person-to-person communication, and where a large proportion of the
machine's behaviour is constituted by human interaction.
Democratising Conservative leadership selection traces the effects
of democracy on the British Conservative Party, specifically
looking at how changes in the ways the Conservatives elect their
leaders have altered their mandate to lead. The book includes
analysis of the original undemocratic 'system' whereby a leader
'emerged' from a shadowy process of consultation, and of the six
elections between 1965 and 1997 where the parliamentary
Conservative Party alone chose the Party leader. This historical
perspective is followed by in-depth analysis of the three contests
since 2001 that have taken place under the 'Hague rules', according
to which ordinary Party members have the final say. This is the
most comprehensive account yet published of the operation of those
rules on the Conservative Party and the legitimacy of its
leadership, and of the 2005 election of David Cameron. This book
will be essential reading for students, academic specialists and
anyone interested in the recent history and contemporary practice
of British Conservatism. -- .
Modernity is a social, cultural, or historical descriptor for a
certain type of society or set of social arrangements. It is a
contentious and disputed term, often understood implicitly. It is a
way of describing and classifying highly complex, dynamic, and
emergent aggregate social phenomena, and so dramatically simplifies
such contexts. However, the language of modernity remains
attractive to commentators, academics, and policymakers. In this
monograph, the author reviews the literature that characterises
what is called digital modernity. Digital modernity narratives
focus on the possibilities of the data gathered by an ambient data
infrastructure, enabled by ubiquitous devices such as the
smartphone, and activities such as social networking and
e-commerce. It is characterised by (1) a subjunctive outlook where
people's choices can be anticipated and improved upon, (2) the
valorisation of disruptive innovation on demand, and (3) control
provided by data analysis within a virtual realm that can be
extended and applied to the physical world. The author explored the
synergies and tensions between these three aspects as well as the
opportunities for and dilemmas posed by misinformation. The author
identifies five principles that emerge from the study of relevant
texts and business models and concludes by contrasting digital
modernity with other theories of the 21st century information
society. Narratives of digital modernity are useful because they
help explain the development of technology. It matters because many
influential people accept, and often generate, the digital
modernity narrative. Given digital modernity's strong association
with the Web, it is a central topic for Web Science as the
interdisciplinary study of the World Wide Web from the
technological, social, and individual points of view.
The internet may be a utopia for free expression, but it also
harbours nihilistic groups and individuals spreading bizarre
creeds, unhindered by the risk-averse gatekeepers of the mass media
- and not all are as harmless as the Virtual Church of the Blind
Chihuahua or Sexastrianism. With few entry barriers, ready
anonymity and no centralised control, the internet offers wired
extremists unprecedented access to a potential global audience of
billions. Technology allows us to select the information we wish to
receive - so those of a fanatical bent can filter out moderating
voices and ignore countervailing arguments, retreating into a
virtual world of their own design that reaffirms their views. In
The Devil's Long Tail, Stevens and O'Hara argue that we
misunderstand online extremism if we think intervention is the best
way to counter it. Policies designed to disrupt radical networks
fail because they ignore the factors that push people to the
margins. Extremists are driven less by ideas than by the benefits
of participating in a tightly-knit, self-defined, group. Rather,
extreme ideas should be left to sink or swim in the internet's
marketplace of ideas. The internet and the web are valuable
creations of a free society. Censoring them impoverishes us all
while leaving the radical impulse intact.
We are entering a new state of global hypersurveillance. As we
increasingly resort to technology for our work and play, our
electronic activity leaves behind digital footprints that can be
used to track our movements. In our cars, telephones, even our
coffee machines, tiny computers communicating wirelessly via the
Internet can serve as miniature witnesses, forming powerful
networks whose emergent behaviour can be very complex, intelligent,
and invasive. The question is: how much of an infringement on
privacy are they? Exposing the invasion of our privacy from CCTVs
to blogs, The Spy in the Coffee Machine explores what-if
anything-we can do to prevent it from disappearing forever in the
digital age, and provides readers with a much needed wake-up call
to the benefits and dangers of this new technology.
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