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Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies

Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies

Simanowski, Roberto
Pichon, Brigitte
Rudnytsky, Dorian

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Technology & EngineeringGeneral ComputersGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0231177275
ISBN13: 9780231177276
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Aug 21 2018
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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. Initiated by software engineers and carried out through algorithms, the mining of big data has sparked a silent revolution. But algorithmic analysis and data mining are not simply byproducts of media development or the logical consequences of computation. They are the radicalization of the Enlightenment's quest for knowledge and progress. Data Love argues that the cold civil war of big data is taking place not among citizens or between the citizen and government but within each of us.

Roberto Simanowski elaborates on the changes data love has brought to the human condition while exploring the entanglements of those who--out of stinginess, convenience, ignorance, narcissism, or passion--contribute to the amassing of ever more data about their lives, leading to the statistical evaluation and individual profiling of their selves. Writing from a philosophical standpoint, Simanowski illustrates the social implications of technological development and retrieves the concepts, events, and cultural artifacts of past centuries to help decode the programming of our present.

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