How Computers Create Social Structures

Accidental Collectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-62854-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 113 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 182 g

This book introduces the idea of accidental collectives: the grouping of people that occurs as a by-product of the automated work of computers. Software has a growing influence in our lives automating and optimising mundane, time-consuming and repetitive tasks. In doing this, groups of people are automatically created as the result of classification and data analysis. Once grouped by the invisible agency of software, people interact and establish new relationships, generating new collectives and communities. With the support of case studies and real-life examples, this work explores the accidental nature of the generation of new social groups and questions the role of software in social interactions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carta, Silvio

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

.- Chapter 1: Introduction - Human Geography, Information and Communication Technology and Digital Sociology.

.- Chapter 2: The Role of Computers in the Generation of Social Groups.

.- Chapter 3: Collectives, Technology, Online Apps and Social Networks.

.- Chapter 4: Software, Automated Spatial Configurations and the Built Environment.

.- Chapter 5: Data Ethics, Fairness and Bias.

.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Future of Automatic and Accidental Collectives.

Über Autor(innen)

Silvio Carta is an architect (ARB/RIBA), Chartered Building Engineer (MCABE) and Professor of Architecture at the University of Greenwich. He is the author of   (2019) and   (2022).