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This much-expanded and updated second edition of New Media, Old
Media brings together original and classic essays that explore the
tensions of old and new in digital culture. Touching on topics
including media archaeology, archives, software studies,
surveillance, big data, social media, organized networks, digital
art, and the Internet of Things, this newly revised critical
anthology is essential reading for anyone studying the cultural
impact of new and digital media.
This much-expanded and updated second edition of New Media, Old
Media brings together original and classic essays that explore the
tensions of old and new in digital culture. Touching on topics
including media archaeology, archives, software studies,
surveillance, big data, social media, organized networks, digital
art, and the Internet of Things, this newly revised critical
anthology is essential reading for anyone studying the cultural
impact of new and digital media.
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Pattern Discrimination (Paperback)
Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer, Hito Steyerl
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R657
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How do "human" prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures
allegedly devised to be blind to them? How do "human" prejudices
reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to
them? To answer this question, this book investigates a fundamental
axiom in computer science: pattern discrimination. By imposing
identity on input data, in order to filter-that is, to
discriminate-signals from noise, patterns become a highly political
issue. Algorithmic identity politics reinstate old forms of social
segregation, such as class, race, and gender, through defaults and
paradigmatic assumptions about the homophilic nature of connection.
Instead of providing a more "objective" basis of decision making,
machine-learning algorithms deepen bias and further inscribe
inequality into media. Yet pattern discrimination is an essential
part of human-and nonhuman-cognition. Bringing together media
thinkers and artists from the United States and Germany, this
volume asks the urgent questions: How can we discriminate without
being discriminatory? How can we filter information out of data
without reinserting racist, sexist, and classist beliefs? How can
we queer homophilic tendencies within digital cultures?
A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software
as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world. New media thrives
on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of
cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big
things-mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed
Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in
part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of
programmability. New media proliferates "programmed visions," which
seek to shape and predict-even embody-a future based on past data.
These programmed visions have also made computers, based on
metaphor, metaphors for metaphor itself, for a general logic of
substitutability. Chun argues that the clarity offered by software
as metaphor should make us pause, because software also engenders a
profound sense of ignorance: who knows what lurks behind our
smiling interfaces, behind the objects we click and manipulate? The
combination of what can be seen and not seen, known (knowable) and
not known-its separation of interface from algorithm and software
from hardware-makes it a powerful metaphor for everything we
believe is invisible yet generates visible, logical effects, from
genetics to the invisible hand of the market, from ideology to
culture.
Scholars from science, art, and humanities explore the meaning of
our new image worlds and offer new strategies for visual analysis.
We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook,
and YouTube; on thousands of television channels; in digital games
and virtual worlds; in media art and science. Without new efforts
to visualize complex ideas, structures, and systems, today's
information explosion would be unmanageable. The digital image
represents endless options for manipulation; images seem capable of
changing interactively or even autonomously. This volume offers
systematic and interdisciplinary reflections on these new image
worlds and new analytical approaches to the visual. Imagery in the
21st Century examines this revolution in various fields, with
researchers from the natural sciences and the humanities meeting to
achieve a deeper understanding of the meaning and impact of the
image in our time. The contributors explore and discuss new
critical terms of multidisciplinary scope, from database economy to
the dramaturgy of hypermedia, from visualizations in neuroscience
to the image in bio art. They consider the power of the image in
the development of human consciousness, pursue new definitions of
visual phenomena, and examine new tools for image research and
visual analysis.
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