The secret life of data : navigating hype and uncertainty in the age of algorithmic surveillance
(2024)
By:
Sinnreich, Aram
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
323.448/SINNREICH,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]
©2024
©2024
DESCRIPTION
xxii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780262048811, 0262048817, 9780262048811
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Data about data (about data) -- All data are Big Data -- Big Data blues -- Our devices are "Smart." but are we? -- The secret data of life -- The overexamined life -- All the world's a stack -- Data and democracy -- Conclusion: Data afterlives
"How cultural and technological objects can reveal more information than their creators or sharers intended, or even imagined, when introduced into new contexts"--