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Data Love : the Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies.

Intelligence services, government administrations, businesses, and a growing majority of the population are hooked on the idea that big data can reveal patterns and correlations in everyday life. Because big data renders quantifiable what we think of as social, it helps propel the project of moderni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simanowski, Roberto
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: La Vergne : Columbia University Press, 2016.
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  • Table of Contents ; Preface; Part I. Beyond the NSA Debate; 1. Intelligence Agency Logic; 2. Double Indifference; 3. Self-Tracking and Smart Things; 4. Ecological Data Disaster; 5. Cold Civil War; Part II. Paradigm Change; 6. Data-Mining Business; 7. Social Engineers Without a Cause; 8. Silent Revolution; 9. Algorithms; 10. Absence of Theory; Part III. The Joy of Numbers; 11. Compulsive Measuring; 12. The Phenomenology of the Numerable; 13. Digital Humanities; 14. Lessing's Rejoinder; Part IV. Resistances; 15. God's Eye; 16. Data Hacks; 17. On the Right Life in the Wrong One; Epilogue.