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

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