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Algorithms and the end of politics : how technology shapes 21st century American life / / Scott Timcke.cke [[electronic resource]]
| Algorithms and the end of politics : how technology shapes 21st century American life / / Scott Timcke.cke [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Timcke Scott |
| Edizione | [1st.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 303.483309730905 |
| Collana | Policy Press scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Information technology - Social aspects - United States
Information technology - Social aspects Information technology - History - 21st century Algorithms - Political aspects Algorithms - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
1-5292-1532-3
1-5292-1534-X 1-5292-1531-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Conclusion: The Fatal Abstractions of Capitalist Rule -- Mystification, rationalization, externalization -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
The retreat from basic descriptions -- Courting disaster -- Institutionalizing hierarchy -- 5 The Whiteness of Communication Studies -- The conception of progress -- Race in America -- Misrecognition and modernity -- Capitalism's extra- economic dimensions -- 6 Misinformation and Ideology -- Popular rhetorics of misinformation -- Ideology and politics -- Reactionary racial agendas -- Externalization -- 7 Testbeds for Authoritarianism -- The reconceptualization of war -- Experimentation on new frontiers -- Blended information warfare -- Technology as the so- called solution to the social question Liberation is not opaque -- 2 The One- Dimensionality of Data -- Acemoglu and Robinson's econometrics -- The politics of quantities -- Reification, mystification and alienation -- The spector of positivism -- A depoliticization of the social question -- 3 Reactionary Tendencies in the Ruling Class -- Finance and class struggle -- Downplaying class differentiation -- Information robber barons -- Infrastructures for reactionary politics -- Ruling class solidarity -- 4 Platforms of Power -- Staving off class struggle 'from below' -- Democratic socialism was the compromise Front Cover -- Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st- Century American Life -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Great Simplification -- Computation and the social question -- The limits of progressive neoliberal social theory -- Communication and the end of neoliberal politics -- A material consolidation -- Summary and outlook -- 1 Algorithms and the Critical Theory of Technology -- Data, politics and rights -- The code of capital -- Code as material governance -- Computational reason |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996524968603316 |
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| Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2021 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Algorithms and the end of politics : how technology shapes 21st century American life / / Scott Timcke.cke [[electronic resource]]
| Algorithms and the end of politics : how technology shapes 21st century American life / / Scott Timcke.cke [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Timcke Scott |
| Edizione | [1st.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 303.483309730905 |
| Collana | Policy Press scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Information technology - Social aspects - United States
Information technology - Social aspects Information technology - History - 21st century Algorithms - Political aspects Algorithms - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
1-5292-1532-3
1-5292-1534-X 1-5292-1531-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Conclusion: The Fatal Abstractions of Capitalist Rule -- Mystification, rationalization, externalization -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
The retreat from basic descriptions -- Courting disaster -- Institutionalizing hierarchy -- 5 The Whiteness of Communication Studies -- The conception of progress -- Race in America -- Misrecognition and modernity -- Capitalism's extra- economic dimensions -- 6 Misinformation and Ideology -- Popular rhetorics of misinformation -- Ideology and politics -- Reactionary racial agendas -- Externalization -- 7 Testbeds for Authoritarianism -- The reconceptualization of war -- Experimentation on new frontiers -- Blended information warfare -- Technology as the so- called solution to the social question Liberation is not opaque -- 2 The One- Dimensionality of Data -- Acemoglu and Robinson's econometrics -- The politics of quantities -- Reification, mystification and alienation -- The spector of positivism -- A depoliticization of the social question -- 3 Reactionary Tendencies in the Ruling Class -- Finance and class struggle -- Downplaying class differentiation -- Information robber barons -- Infrastructures for reactionary politics -- Ruling class solidarity -- 4 Platforms of Power -- Staving off class struggle 'from below' -- Democratic socialism was the compromise Front Cover -- Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st- Century American Life -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Great Simplification -- Computation and the social question -- The limits of progressive neoliberal social theory -- Communication and the end of neoliberal politics -- A material consolidation -- Summary and outlook -- 1 Algorithms and the Critical Theory of Technology -- Data, politics and rights -- The code of capital -- Code as material governance -- Computational reason |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910682544803321 |
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Timcke Scott
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| Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2021 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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