Amoore Cloud Ethics

Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0927-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Louise Amoore examines how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society, proposing what she calls cloud ethics as a way to hold algorithms accountable by engaging with the social and technical conditions under which they emerge and operate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amoore, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Politics and Ethics in the Age of Algorithms 1
Part 1. Condensation
1. The Cloud Chambers: Condensed Data and Correlative Reason 29
2. The Learning Machines: Neural Networks and Regimes of Recognition 56
Part 2. Attribution
3. The Uncertain Author: Writing and Attribution 85
4. The Madness of Algorithms: Aberration and Unreasonable Acts 108
Part 3. Ethics
5. The Doubtful Algorithm: Ground Truth and Partial Accounts 133
6. The Unattributable: Strategies for a Cloud Ethics 154
Notes 173
Bibliography 197
Index 212

Über Autor(innen)

Louise Amoore is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University and author of The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security beyond Probability, also published by Duke University Press.