【書名】:算法生活:機器人程序如何重塑我們的世界 英文原版 Life by Algorithms Catherine Besteman
【國際標準書號ISBN】:9780226627564
【作者】:Catherine Besteman
【出版社】:University of Chicago Press
Life by Algorithms:How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World
基本信息
Paperback: 226 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (23 May 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 022662756X
ISBN-13: 978-0226627564
Product Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 12.7mm | 272.16g
書籍簡介
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.
作者簡介
Catherine Besteman is the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College. Hugh Gusterson is professor of international affairs and anthropology at the George Washington University.
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