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Titre(s) : Life by algorithms [Texte imprimé] : how roboprocesses are remaking our world / edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson
Publication : Chicago : The University of Chicago press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (vi, 220 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Computerized 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
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Besteman, Catherine Lowe. Éditeur scientifique
Gusterson, Hugh (1959-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Intelligence artificielle -- Société -- États-Unis
Robotique -- Société -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey :
303.483 (23e éd.) = Développement de la science et de la technologie (cause de changement social)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226627427. - ISBN 022662742X. - ISBN 9780226627564. - ISBN 022662756X. -
ISBN 9780226627731 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457508803
Notice n° :
FRBNF45750880
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: 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
