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 |
Timcke Scott | ||
Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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]] |
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 |
Timcke Scott | ||
Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bridging the digital divide : technology, community, and public policy / / Lisa J. Servon |
Autore | Servon Lisa J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2002] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.4830973 |
Collana | Information Age Series |
Soggetto topico |
Digital divide - United States
Digital divide - Government policy - United States Information technology - Social aspects - United States |
ISBN |
1-281-31043-3
9786611310431 0-470-70613-9 0-470-77352-9 0-470-77528-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Special Recognition; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Redefining the Digital Divide; 2 The Dimensions of the Digital Divide; 3 The Role of CTCs within the Community Technology Movement - with Marla K. Nelson; 4 Support for Bridging the Gap; 5 Community Technology and Youth; 6 Training Disadvantaged Workers for IT Jobs; 7 The Organizational Divide - with Josh Kirschenbaum and Radhika Kunamneni; 8 Building the Bridge: Learning from Seattle; 9 Toward a New Agenda; Appendix 1. Research Strategy and Methodology
Appendix 2. Community Technology SurveyAppendix 3. Analysis of Survey Results; Appendix 4. World Wide Web References; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830058703321 |
Servon Lisa J. | ||
Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2002] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bridging the technological gap : initiatives to combat the digital divide : hearing before the Subcommittee on Empowerment of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, Washington, DC, March 28, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iii, 91 p.) : ill |
Soggetto topico |
Digital divide - United States
Information technology - Social aspects - United States Internet - Social aspects - United States Telecommunication policy - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Information technology
Internet Telecommunication policy Computers Political science |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Bridging the Technological Gap |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910689488603321 |
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Combatting targeted disinformation campaigns : a whole-of-society issue |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : Public-Private Analytic Exchange Program, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (26 pages) : color illustrations |
Soggetto topico |
Disinformation - United States - Prevention
Truth - Political aspects - United States Information technology - Social aspects - United States National security - United States |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Combatting targeted disinformation campaigns |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910715241503321 |
[Washington, D.C.] : , : Public-Private Analytic Exchange Program, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The digital divide [[electronic resource] ] : facing a crisis or creating a myth? / / edited by Benjamin M. Compaine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | xvi, 357 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 303.48/33 |
Altri autori (Persone) | CompaineBenjamin M |
Collana | MIT Press sourcebooks |
Soggetto topico |
Digital divide - United States
Information technology - Social aspects - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-10025-4
9786612100253 0-262-28702-1 0-585-38663-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: I The Set-Up: Documenters of the Digital Divide 1 -- 1 Falling through the Net: A Survey of the "Have-Nots" in Rural and -- Urban America 7 -- National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- 2 Falling through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide 17 -- National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- 3 The Evolution of the Digital Divide: Examining the Relationship of -- Race to Internet Access and Usage over Time 47 -- Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak, and Ann E. Schlosser -- I The Context: Background and Texture 99 -- 4 Information Gaps: Myth or Reality? 105 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- 5 Universal Service from the Bottom Up: A Study of Telephone -- Penetration in Camden, New Jersey 119 -- Milton L. Mueller and Jorge Reina Schement -- 6 Universal Access to Online Services: An Examination of the -- Issue 147 -- Benjamin M. Compaine and Mitchell J. Weinraub -- 7 Universal Service Policies as Wealth Redistribution 179 -- Milton L. Mueller -- III The Advocates: Raising the Stakes 189 -- 8 Equality in the Information Age 195 -- William E. Kennard -- 9 The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996: -- Economic Reality versus Public Policy 199 -- The First Triennial Review, 1999 -- Mark Cooper and Gene Kimmelman -- 10 The E-rate in America: A Tale of Four Cities 223 -- Andy Carvin, editor, with Chris Conte and Allen Gilbert -- 11 Universal Access to Email: Feasibility and Societal -- Implications 243 -- Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, Sally Ann Law, and Bridger -- M. Mitchell -- 12 Clinton Enlists Help for Plan to Increase Computer Use 263 -- Marc Lacey -- IV Reality Check: Tracking a Moving Target in High-Tech -- Time 265 -- 13 Data from Three Empirical Studies, 2000 269 -- Internet and Society: A Preliminary Report 269 -- Norman H. Nie and Lutz Erbring -- The Digital World of Hispanics in the United States 272 -- Cheskin Research -- Survey of Americans on Technology 274 -- National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Kennedy -- School of Government -- 14 The Truth about the Digital Divide 279 -- Ekaterina O. Walsh with Michael E. Gazala and Christine Ham -- 15 Internet Access Spreads to More Classrooms, Survey Finds 285 -- Pamela Mendels -- 16 Cheap Computers Bridge Digital Divide 289 -- John Simons -- 17 This Internet Start-Up Looks to Conquer an Online Divide 293 -- Timothy Hanrahan -- V What's It All Mean? 299 -- 18 Of Gaps by Which Democracy We Measure 303 -- Jorge Reina Schement -- 19 Falling for the Gap: Whatever Happened to the Digital -- Divide? 309 -- Adam Clayton Powell III -- 20 Declare the War Won 315 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- Epilogue 337 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- Source Notes 341 -- Contributors 343 -- Index 345. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454873203321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth? / / edited by Benjamin M. Compaine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | xvi, 357 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 303.48/33 |
Altri autori (Persone) | CompaineBenjamin M |
Collana | MIT Press sourcebooks |
Soggetto topico |
Digital divide - United States
Information technology - Social aspects - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-10025-4
9786612100253 0-262-28702-1 0-585-38663-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: I The Set-Up: Documenters of the Digital Divide 1 -- 1 Falling through the Net: A Survey of the "Have-Nots" in Rural and -- Urban America 7 -- National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- 2 Falling through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide 17 -- National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- 3 The Evolution of the Digital Divide: Examining the Relationship of -- Race to Internet Access and Usage over Time 47 -- Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak, and Ann E. Schlosser -- I The Context: Background and Texture 99 -- 4 Information Gaps: Myth or Reality? 105 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- 5 Universal Service from the Bottom Up: A Study of Telephone -- Penetration in Camden, New Jersey 119 -- Milton L. Mueller and Jorge Reina Schement -- 6 Universal Access to Online Services: An Examination of the -- Issue 147 -- Benjamin M. Compaine and Mitchell J. Weinraub -- 7 Universal Service Policies as Wealth Redistribution 179 -- Milton L. Mueller -- III The Advocates: Raising the Stakes 189 -- 8 Equality in the Information Age 195 -- William E. Kennard -- 9 The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996: -- Economic Reality versus Public Policy 199 -- The First Triennial Review, 1999 -- Mark Cooper and Gene Kimmelman -- 10 The E-rate in America: A Tale of Four Cities 223 -- Andy Carvin, editor, with Chris Conte and Allen Gilbert -- 11 Universal Access to Email: Feasibility and Societal -- Implications 243 -- Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, Sally Ann Law, and Bridger -- M. Mitchell -- 12 Clinton Enlists Help for Plan to Increase Computer Use 263 -- Marc Lacey -- IV Reality Check: Tracking a Moving Target in High-Tech -- Time 265 -- 13 Data from Three Empirical Studies, 2000 269 -- Internet and Society: A Preliminary Report 269 -- Norman H. Nie and Lutz Erbring -- The Digital World of Hispanics in the United States 272 -- Cheskin Research -- Survey of Americans on Technology 274 -- National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Kennedy -- School of Government -- 14 The Truth about the Digital Divide 279 -- Ekaterina O. Walsh with Michael E. Gazala and Christine Ham -- 15 Internet Access Spreads to More Classrooms, Survey Finds 285 -- Pamela Mendels -- 16 Cheap Computers Bridge Digital Divide 289 -- John Simons -- 17 This Internet Start-Up Looks to Conquer an Online Divide 293 -- Timothy Hanrahan -- V What's It All Mean? 299 -- 18 Of Gaps by Which Democracy We Measure 303 -- Jorge Reina Schement -- 19 Falling for the Gap: Whatever Happened to the Digital -- Divide? 309 -- Adam Clayton Powell III -- 20 Declare the War Won 315 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- Epilogue 337 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- Source Notes 341 -- Contributors 343 -- Index 345. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779845503321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth? / / edited by Benjamin M. Compaine |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | xvi, 357 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 303.48/33 |
Altri autori (Persone) | CompaineBenjamin M |
Collana | MIT Press sourcebooks |
Soggetto topico |
Digital divide - United States
Information technology - Social aspects - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-10025-4
9786612100253 0-262-28702-1 0-585-38663-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: I The Set-Up: Documenters of the Digital Divide 1 -- 1 Falling through the Net: A Survey of the "Have-Nots" in Rural and -- Urban America 7 -- National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- 2 Falling through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide 17 -- National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- 3 The Evolution of the Digital Divide: Examining the Relationship of -- Race to Internet Access and Usage over Time 47 -- Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak, and Ann E. Schlosser -- I The Context: Background and Texture 99 -- 4 Information Gaps: Myth or Reality? 105 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- 5 Universal Service from the Bottom Up: A Study of Telephone -- Penetration in Camden, New Jersey 119 -- Milton L. Mueller and Jorge Reina Schement -- 6 Universal Access to Online Services: An Examination of the -- Issue 147 -- Benjamin M. Compaine and Mitchell J. Weinraub -- 7 Universal Service Policies as Wealth Redistribution 179 -- Milton L. Mueller -- III The Advocates: Raising the Stakes 189 -- 8 Equality in the Information Age 195 -- William E. Kennard -- 9 The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996: -- Economic Reality versus Public Policy 199 -- The First Triennial Review, 1999 -- Mark Cooper and Gene Kimmelman -- 10 The E-rate in America: A Tale of Four Cities 223 -- Andy Carvin, editor, with Chris Conte and Allen Gilbert -- 11 Universal Access to Email: Feasibility and Societal -- Implications 243 -- Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, Sally Ann Law, and Bridger -- M. Mitchell -- 12 Clinton Enlists Help for Plan to Increase Computer Use 263 -- Marc Lacey -- IV Reality Check: Tracking a Moving Target in High-Tech -- Time 265 -- 13 Data from Three Empirical Studies, 2000 269 -- Internet and Society: A Preliminary Report 269 -- Norman H. Nie and Lutz Erbring -- The Digital World of Hispanics in the United States 272 -- Cheskin Research -- Survey of Americans on Technology 274 -- National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Kennedy -- School of Government -- 14 The Truth about the Digital Divide 279 -- Ekaterina O. Walsh with Michael E. Gazala and Christine Ham -- 15 Internet Access Spreads to More Classrooms, Survey Finds 285 -- Pamela Mendels -- 16 Cheap Computers Bridge Digital Divide 289 -- John Simons -- 17 This Internet Start-Up Looks to Conquer an Online Divide 293 -- Timothy Hanrahan -- V What's It All Mean? 299 -- 18 Of Gaps by Which Democracy We Measure 303 -- Jorge Reina Schement -- 19 Falling for the Gap: Whatever Happened to the Digital -- Divide? 309 -- Adam Clayton Powell III -- 20 Declare the War Won 315 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- Epilogue 337 -- Benjamin M. Compaine -- Source Notes 341 -- Contributors 343 -- Index 345. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806868603321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The digital divide : bridging the technology gap : hearing before the Subcommittee on Empowerment of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, Washington, DC, July 27, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iii, 110 p.) : ill |
Soggetto topico |
Digital divide - United States
Information technology - Social aspects - United States Internet - Social aspects - United States Telecommunication policy - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Information technology
Internet Telecommunication policy Information society Computers Political science |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Digital divide |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910689487303321 |
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fostering research on the economic and social impacts of information technology [[electronic resource] ] : report of a workshop / / Steering Committee on Research Opportunities Relating to Economic and Social Impacts of Computing and Communications, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.4833 |
Soggetto topico |
Information technology - United States
Information technology Information technology - Social aspects - United States Information technology - Social aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-309-52175-0
0-585-02099-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Illustrative Examples and Unanswered Questions""; ""3 Data�The Basis for New Knowledge""; ""Results""; ""Bibliography""; ""A Workshop Agenda and Participants""; ""B Position Papers Submitted by Workshop Participants"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455378603321 |
Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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