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Timcke

Algorithms and the End of Politics

How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-5292-1531-1
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 15.02.2021
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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. 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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781529215311
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-5292-1531-1
  • Verlag: Bristol University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 15.02.2021
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2021
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 470 g
  • Seiten: 198
  • Format (B x H x T): 161 x 240 x 15 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Scott Timcke is Research Associate at the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. His research focuses on the transformations of race, class and technology during modernity.

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