Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in the Age of Big Data
暫譯: 算法生命:大數據時代的計算裝置

  • 出版商: Routledge
  • 出版日期: 2015-12-22
  • 售價: $6,190
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$5,881
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 212
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 113885283X
  • ISBN-13: 9781138852839
  • 相關分類: 大數據 Big-dataAlgorithms-data-structures
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商品描述

This book critically explores forms and techniques of calculation that emerge with digital computation, and their implications. The contributors demonstrate that digital calculative devices matter beyond their specific functions as they progressively shape, transform and govern all areas of our life. In particular, it addresses such questions as:

  • How does the drive to make sense of, and productively use, large amounts of diverse data, inform the development of new calculative devices, logics and techniques?
  • How do these devices, logics and techniques affect our capacity to decide and to act?
  • How do mundane elements of our physical and virtual existence become data to be analysed and rearranged in complex ensembles of people and things?
  • In what ways are conventional notions of public and private, individual and population, certainty and probability, rule and exception transformed and what are the consequences?
  • How does the search for ‘hidden’ connections and patterns change our understanding of social relations and associative life?
  • Do contemporary modes of calculation produce new thresholds of calculability and computability, allowing for the improbable or the merely possible to be embraced and acted upon?
  • As contemporary approaches to governing uncertain futures seek to anticipate future events, how are calculation and decision engaged anew?

Drawing together different strands of cutting-edge research that is both theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this book makes an important contribution to several areas of scholarship, including the emerging social science field of software studies, and will be a vital resource for students and scholars alike.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書批判性地探討了隨著數位計算而出現的計算形式和技術及其影響。貢獻者們展示了數位計算設備的重要性超越其特定功能,因為它們逐步塑造、改變並管理我們生活的各個領域。特別是,它針對以下問題進行探討:

- 如何理解和有效利用大量多樣化數據的驅動力,促進新計算設備、邏輯和技術的發展?
- 這些設備、邏輯和技術如何影響我們的決策能力和行動能力?
- 我們物理和虛擬存在的平凡元素如何成為需要分析和重新排列的數據,並在複雜的人與物的集合中進行處理?
- 傳統的公共與私人的概念、個人與群體、確定性與概率、規則與例外是如何轉變的,這些轉變有什麼後果?
- 尋找“隱藏”連結和模式的過程如何改變我們對社會關係和聯繫生活的理解?
- 當代的計算模式是否產生了新的可計算性和可計算的門檻,使得不可能或僅僅可能的事物得以被接受和付諸行動?
- 隨著當代治理不確定未來的方法試圖預測未來事件,計算和決策是如何重新參與的?

這本書匯集了不同的前沿研究,這些研究在理論上是複雜的,在實證上是豐富的,對於幾個學術領域,包括新興的社會科學領域——軟體研究,做出了重要貢獻,並將成為學生和學者的重要資源。

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