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050 00 $aTJ211$b.L457 2019
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245 00 $aLife by algorithms :$bhow roboprocesses are remaking our world /$cedited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson.
264 1 $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2019.
264 4 $c℗♭2019
300 $avi, 220 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: robohumans / Hugh Gusterson -- Categories. Automated expulsion in the U.S. foreclosure epidemic / Noelle Stout -- Roboeducation / Ann Lutz Fernandez and Catherine Lutz -- Detention and deportation of minors in U.S. immigration custody / Susan J. Terrio -- A felony conviction as a roboprocess / Keesha M. Middlemass -- Emotions. Infinite proliferation, or the making of the modern runt / Alex Blanchette -- Emotional roboprocesses / Robert W. Gehl -- Surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance / Joseph Masco -- Controlling numbers: how quantification shapes the world / Sally Engle Merry -- Afterword: remaking the world / Catherine Besteman.
520 8 $aComputerized processes are everywhere in our society. They are the automated phone messaging systems that businesses use to screen calls; the link between student standardized test scores and public schools' access to resources; the algorithms that regulate patient diagnoses and reimbursements to doctors. The storage, sorting, and analysis of massive amounts of information have enabled the automation of decision-making at an unprecedented level. Meanwhile, computers have offered a model of cognition that increasingly shapes our approach to the world. The proliferation of "roboprocesses" is the result, as editors Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson observe in this rich and wide-ranging volume, which features contributions from a distinguished cast of scholars in anthropology, communications, international studies, and political science. Although automatic processes are designed to be engines of rational systems, the stories in Life by Algorithms reveal how they can in fact produce absurd, inflexible, or even dangerous outcomes. Joining the call for "algorithmic transparency," the contributors bring exceptional sensitivity to everyday sociality into their critique to better understand how the perils of modern technology affect finance, medicine, education, housing, the workplace, food production, public space, and emotions - not as separate problems but as linked manifestations of a deeper defect in the fundamental ordering of our society.
650 0 $aAutomation$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aRobotics$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aArtificial intelligence$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
700 1 $aBesteman, Catherine Lowe,$eeditor.
700 1 $aGusterson, Hugh,$eeditor.
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