The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing

by David Beer

We are living in algorithmic times.

From machine learning and artificial intelligence to blockchain or simpler newsfeed filtering, automated systems can transform the social world in ways that are just starting to be imagined.

Redefining these emergent technologies as the new systems of knowing, pioneering scholar David Beer examines the acute tensions they create and how they are changing what is known and what is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529212898
• ISBN13: 9781529212891
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"