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1 Online-Ressource (352 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780252054877
Serie:
Geopolitics of information series
Inhalt:
Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Sensing, Automating, Mediating -- 1 Atmospheric Mediation: From Smart Dust to Customizable Governance -- The Politics of Verticality -- Vertical Mediation -- Atmospheric Mediation -- "Framelessness" -- Environmentality -- Automated Mediation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 The Other Side of the Smart Phone: MEMS Sensors and the Tiny Matters of Mediation -- Manufacturing MEMS -- Drawing Relations -- Teardowns -- There's an App for That -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 EugenicTech: Three Perspectives on the (B)anality of AI -- Dominant Representations of AI Infrastructure as Enforced Neurotypicality -- Human in the Loop and the Banality of AI Evil -- Google's DeepDream and the Anality of AI -- Mario Klingemann's Expulsive AI -- Notes -- 4 Coding and Encoding Streamed Media: The Cultural Infrastructure of the Netflix Recommender System -- Algorithm as Infrastructure, Infrastructures as Algorithmic -- The Tale of the Netflix Recommender System -- The Configuration of Algorithmic Infrastructures -- Classification -- Categorization -- Codification -- The Power of Cultural Infrastructures -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Engaging Opacity: Spotify and the Poiesis of Algorithmic Backends -- Opacity and Accountability -- Data Profiling as Interpellation -- The Missing Half-Second -- Feeding Forward -- Ethics on the Fly through Inauthentic Worlds -- Notes -- Part II: Datafying, Serving, Distributing -- 6 The Social Mapping of Hyperscale Data Center Regions: Placemaking, Infrastructuring, Curating -- Placemaking and Economic Development -- Infrastructuring -- Curating -- Infrastructural Geographies of Data Centers and Social Mapping of Their Regional Hosts -- Notes -- 7 Cross-sectoral Relations in VoD Markets: Frontend, Backend, and Deepend in India.
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ISBN 9780252087462
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ISBN 9780252045349
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Media backends Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2023 ISBN 9780252045349
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ISBN 9780252087462
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Informationsgesellschaft
;
Medien
;
Technische Innovation
