Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition

by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Book Overview

How big data and machine learning encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage. In Discriminating Data , Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal-not an error-within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation, which grounds big data's predictive potential, stems from twentieth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262548526
• ISBN13: 9780262548526
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"