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"High technology presents a paradox. In just a few decades, it has transformed the world, making almost limitless quantities of information instantly available to billions of people and reshaping businesses, institutions, and even entire economies. But it also has come to rule our lives, addict...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghosh, Dipayan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social responsibility of business.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Information technology > Political aspects.
Information technology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Information society.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
Societe informatisee.
Entreprises > Responsabilite sociale.
Internet > Industrie > Aspect social.
Technologie de l'information > Aspect politique.
Technologie de l'information > Aspect social.
Internet industry > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The business model
  • Data : the consumer internet's harvesting of all observable knowledge
  • Algorithms : machine bias in the age of mass commercialized decisionmaking
  • Platforms : consummate consolidation in the markets for information, attention, and media
  • A new social contract.

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