If...Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics

by Taina Bucher

Book Overview

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. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190493038
• ISBN13: 9780190493035
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"