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UNINA9910888600403321 |
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Carta Silvio |
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Titolo |
How Computers Create Social Structures : Accidental Collectives / / by Silvio Carta |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
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[1st ed. 2024.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (123 pages) |
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Internet - Social aspects |
Interactive multimedia |
Multimedia systems |
Artificial intelligence - Data processing |
Science - Social aspects |
Internet Studies |
Media Design |
Data Science |
Science and Technology Studies |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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-- Chapter 1: Introduction - Human Geography, Information and Communication Technology and Digital Sociology. -- Chapter 2: The Role of Computers in the Generation of Social Groups. -- Chapter 3: Collectives, Technology, Online Apps and Social Networks. -- Chapter 4: Software, Automated Spatial Configurations and the Built Environment. -- Chapter 5: Data Ethics, Fairness and Bias. -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Future of Automatic and Accidental Collectives. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book introduces the idea of accidental collectives: the grouping of people that occurs as a by-product of the automated work of computers. Software has a growing influence in our lives automating and optimising mundane, time-consuming and repetitive tasks. In doing this, groups of people are automatically created as the result of classification and data analysis. Once grouped by the invisible agency |
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of software, people interact and establish new relationships, generating new collectives and communities. With the support of case studies and real-life examples, this work explores the accidental nature of the generation of new social groups and questions the role of software in social interactions. Silvio Carta is an architect (ARB/RIBA), Chartered Building Engineer (MCABE) and Professor of Architecture at the University of Greenwich. He is the author of Big Data, Code and the Discrete City: Shaping Public Realms (2019) and Machine Learning and the City: Applications in Architecture and Urban Design (2022). |
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