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The everyday life of an algorithm

This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding forms of experimentation. Here the algorithm must prove its ability to get a grip on everyday life if it is to become an ordinary feature of the settings where it is being put to work. Through investigating the everyday life of the algorithm, the book opens a conversation with existing social science research that tends to focus on the power and opacity of algorithms. In this book we have unique access to the algorithm’s design, development and testing, but can also bear witness to its fragility and dependency on others.

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Series Title
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Call Number
303.483 NEY e
Publisher
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Pivot.,
Collation
ix, 151p. : ill.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9783030005788
Classification
303.483
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Edition
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Subject(s)
Data structures (Computer science)
Culture
Computer Science
Technology
Algorithms
Technology--Sociological aspects
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