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Machine Habitus Toward a Sociology of Algorithms

Paperback • 2022 • English • 1. edition

Machine Habitus Toward a Sociology of Algorithms

By Massimo Airoldi

3 Ratings • 4.7 of 5

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About the book

We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer the case. Billions of automated systems tacitly contribute to the social construction of reality by drawing algorithmic distinctions between the visible and the invisible, the relevant and the irrelevant, the likely and the unlikely – on and beyond platforms. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, this book develops an original sociology of algorit...Show more

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ISBN

9781509543281

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2022

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Machine Habitus Toward a Sociology of Algorithms

Format

Paperback

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