03651cam a2200481 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000380009502000150013302000430014802000150019104000280020604100080023404200080024205000230025008200140027310000190028724500660030626400480037230000310042033600260045133700280047733800270050544000400053250400670057250503240063952016180096365000440258165000570262565000410268265000520272365000320277565000360280765000300284365000340287365000450290765000490295265000360300177601320303720364697BJBSDDR20240416124539.0ta180221s2018    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a  2017054909  a9780190493035 (pbk. : alk. paper)  a0190493038  a9780190493028 (hardcover : alk. paper)  a019049302X  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLC  aeng  apcc14aHM 851bB919i 201800a303.48/331 aBucher, Taina,10aIf... then :balgorithmic power and politics /cTaina Bucher. 1aNew York :bOxford University Press,c2018.  aviii, 200 pages ; c24 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier0 aOxford studies in digital politics   aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 161-194) and index.0 aIntroduction : programmed sociality -- The multiplicity of algorithms -- Neither black nor box : (un)knowing algorithms -- Life at the top : engineering participation -- Affective landscapes : everyday encounters with algorithms -- Programming the news : when algorithms come to matter -- Conclusion : algorithmic life.  aWe live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix collaborative filtering algorithms choose the media products we consume. As such, we live algorithmic lives. Life, however, is not blindly controlled or determined by algorithms. Nor are we simply victims of an ever-expanding artificial intelligence. Rather than looking at how technologies shape or are shaped by political institutions, this book is concerned with the ways in which informational infrastructure may be considered political in its capacity to shape social and cultural life. It looks specifically at the conditions of algorithmic life - how algorithms work, both materially and discursively, to create the conditions for sociality and connectivity. The book argues that the most important aspect of algorithms is not what they are in terms of their specific technical details but rather how they become part of social practices and how different people enlist them as powerful brokers of information, communication and society. If we truly want to engage with the promises of automation and predictive analytics entailed by the promises of "big data", we also need to understand the contours of algorithmic life that condition such practices. Setting out to explore both the specific uses of algorithms and the cultural forms they generate, this book offers a novel understanding of the power and politics of algorithmic life as grounded in case studies that explore the material-discursive dimensions of software--Provided by publisher 0aInformation technologyxSocial aspects. 4aTecnologías de la informaciónxAspectos sociales 0aInformation societyxSocial aspects. 4aSociedad de la informaciónxAspectos sociales 0aAlgorithmsxSocial aspects. 4aAlgoritmos xAspectos sociales  0aBig dataxSocial aspects. 4aBig data xAspectos sociales  0aArtificial intelligencexSocial aspects. 4aInteligencia artificial xAspectos sociales  4aMedios de comunicación social08iOnline version:aBucher, Taina, author.tIf...thendNew York : Oxford University Press, [2018]z9780190493042w(DLC) 2018008562