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Data Love : The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231542425
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Data LoveDDC classification:
  • 302.23/1
LOC classification:
  • HM851.S563 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 -- Postface -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Data Love considers the changes big data has brought to the human condition from a philosophical standpoint. Roberto Simanowski explores our entanglements with algorithmic analysis and data mining, as we contribute to the amassing of ever more data about our lives, leading to the statistical evaluation and individual profiling of our selves.
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Intro -- 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 -- Postface -- Notes -- Index.

Data Love considers the changes big data has brought to the human condition from a philosophical standpoint. Roberto Simanowski explores our entanglements with algorithmic analysis and data mining, as we contribute to the amassing of ever more data about our lives, leading to the statistical evaluation and individual profiling of our selves.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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