Both books are also attempts at using humanist disciplines to question and contextualize the practices and assumptions of information and computer sciences. Specifically, both books build on the idea that the imagined objectivity of big data and search algorithms masks the fact that human beings compile, read, sort, and interpret data and that these interactions reflect the implicit and explicit prejudices and values of the society in which they live. paper, $25.00Ī LGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION AND PATTERN DISCRIMINATION ARE TWO WORKS THAT GRAPPLE with the disjuncture between big data's supposed objectivity and the very real ways in which it discriminates on the basis of identity. University of Minnesota Press, 2018 124 pp. paper, $28.00īy Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer, and Hito Steyerl
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