Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies

by Roberto Simanowski

Book Overview

Intelligence services, government administrations, businesses, and a growing majority of the population are hooked on the idea that big data can reveal patterns and correlations in everyday life. Initiated by software engineers and carried out through algorithms, the mining of big data has sparked a silent revolution. But algorithmic analysis and data mining are not simply byproducts of media development or the logical consequences of computation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231177275
• ISBN13: 9780231177276
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.2"