Everyday Automation Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies

• Other Authors: Pink, Sarah (Editor), Berg, Martin (Editor), Lupton, Deborah (Editor), Ruckenstein, Minna (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2022
• Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Media studies; Impact of science & technology on society; ADM; AI; artificial intelligence; automated decision-making; emerging technologies; everyday life; human-computer interaction; imaginaries; platform studies; politics; sociotechnical futures
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Summary

This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? What are their likely impacts in the present and future? How do engineers, policy makers, industry stakeholders and designers envisage artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) as solutions to individual and societal problems? How do these future visions compare with the everyday realities, power relations and social inequalities in which AI and ADM are experienced? What do people know about automation and what are their experiences of engaging with 'actually existing' AI and ADM technologies? An international team of leading scholars bring together research developed across anthropology, sociology, media and communication studies and ethnology, which shows how by rehumanising automation, we can gain deeper understandings of its societal impacts.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (250 p.)

ISBN

9781003170884
9781000583335
9780367773380
9780367773403

Access

Open Access