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If...Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics) - Softcover

Book 24 of 49: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics

Bucher, Taina

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9780190493035: If...Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)
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ISBN 10: 0190493038 ISBN 13: 9780190493035
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

We 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. 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. 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.

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About the Author

Taina Bucher is Associate Professor of Communication and IT at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the power and politics of algorithms in everyday life at the intersection of media studies, sociology and science, and technology studies.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0190493038
ISBN 13 
9780190493035
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
216
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