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The Everyday Life of an Algorithm

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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, accounta...

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Main Author: Neyland, Daniel (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Science > Social aspects.
Technology > Sociological aspects.
Computers and civilization.
Data structures (Computer science).
Information theory.
Machine theory.
Science and Technology Studies.
Science, Technology and Society.
Computers and Society.
Data Structures and Information Theory.
Formal Languages and Automata Theory.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Everyday life and the algorithm
  • 2. Experimentation with a probable human-shaped object
  • 3. Accountability and the algorithm
  • 4. The deleting machine and its discontents
  • 5. Demonstrating the algorithm
  • 6. Market value and the everyday life of the algorithm.

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