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

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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. 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