Algorithmic Culture: How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Are Transforming Everyday Life

✍ Scribed by Stefka Hristova, Jennifer Daryl Slack, Soonkwan Hong

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Algorithmic Culture: How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are Transforming Everyday Life explores the complex ways in which algorithms and big data, or algorithmic culture, are simultaneously reshaping everyday culture while perpetuating inequality and intersectional discrimination. Contributors situate issues of humanity, identity, and culture in relation to free will, surveillance, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumerism, solipsism, and creativity, offering a critique of the myriad constraints enacted by algorithms. This book argues that consumers are undergoing an ontological overhaul due to the enhanced manipulability and increasingly mandatory nature of algorithms in the market, while also positing that algorithms may help navigate through chaos that is intrinsically present in the market democracy. Ultimately, Algorithmic Culture calls attention to the present-day cultural landscape as a whole as it has been reconfigured and re-presented by algorithms.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Introduction
Algorithmic Culture
Algorithmic Culture: How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Are Transforming Everyday Life
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
From Digital to Algorithmic Culture
What Is an Algorithm?
Algorithms at Work
Chapter Overviews
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 1
Why We Need the Concept of Algorithmic Culture
Algorithmic Design: Selection, Transformation, and Bias
Algorithms in Control: Machine Learning
Negotiating Power and Control: Algorithms and Users
Algorithmic Culture: The Production of Computational Logics
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2
Fetishizing Algorithms and Rearticulating Consumption
Fetish for Algorithms
Choreographed Consumption: Acquiescence to Engineered Manipulability
(Un)plugged?
In Studying Agential
For Staying Agential
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3
Monoculturalism, Aculturalism, and Post-Culturalism
Patriarchal Culture as Monoculture in Algorithm Development
Corporate Culture and Acultural Algorithm Development
Post-Culturalism, Education, and Algorithm Development
First, Do No Harm
Futures
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 4
“The Specter of Self-Organization”
Technological Culture/Cultural Technology
Algorithm: An Uncertain Machine
Giles Châtelet: An Untimely Thinker of Thermocracy
The Recurring Nightmare of Chaos
Visions of Equilibrium
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 5
Machines of Liberation, Machines of Control
California Dreaming
Network of Control
Subversive Futures
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6
The Autoimmunitary Violence of the Algorithms of Mourning
Mediated Death
Read Bleach, Offer Detergent
Multiple Algorithms
The Filter Bubble Is Unforgiving
Algorithm of Mourning
The Value of Difference
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 7
Algorithms, Identity, and Cultural Consequences of Genetic Profiles
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 8
Technologies of Convenience
Bias and Algorithmic Chain
Algorithmic Bias and the Input-Output System of Digital Images
Bias and the Digitizing of the Human Body
Digital Image Processing and Technologies of Convenience
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 9
Generative Adversarial Networks
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors