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Algorithms and the End of Politics : How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life / Scott Timcke

Englisch

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021

©2021

1 Online-Ressource (198 p.)

In English

Erscheint auch als (print) : ISBN 9781529215311

978-1-5292-1533-5

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-1-5292-1531-1 (Druckausgabe) : print

DOI: 10.56687/9781529215335

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Great Simplification

Algorithms and the Critical Theory of Technology

The One-Dimensionality of Data

Reactionary Tendencies in the Ruling Class

Platforms of Power

The Whiteness of Communication Studies

Misinformation and Ideology

Testbeds for Authoritarianism

Conclusion: The Fatal Abstractions of Capitalist Rule

References

Index

*Algorithms -- Political aspects ; Algorithms -- Social aspects ; Information technology -- History -- 21st century ; Information technology -- Social aspects -- United States ; Information technology -- Social aspects ; Populism ; Social media

*SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: HN90.I56

bisacsh: SOC071000

As the US contends with issues of populism and de-democratization, this timely study considers the impacts of digital technologies on the country’s politics and society. Timcke provides a Marxist analysis of the rise of digital media, social networks and technology giants like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. He looks at the impact of these new platforms and technologies on their users who have made them among the most valuable firms in the world. Offering bold new thinking across data politics and digital and economic sociology, this is a powerful demonstration of how algorithms have come to shape everyday life and political legitimacy in the US and beyond

https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529215335?locatt=mode:legacy [Open Access]