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We Are Data : Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves /

"What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cheney-Lippold, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Categorization: making data useful
  • Control: algorithm is gonna get you
  • Subjectivity: who do they think you are?
  • Privacy: wanted dead or alive
  • Conclusion: ghosts in the machine.