Screening Big Data

Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-77402-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

This book examines the influence of key films on public understanding of big data and the algorithmic systems that structure our digitally mediated lives.

From star-powered blockbusters to civic-minded documentaries positioned to facilitate weighty debates about artificial intelligence, these texts frame our discourse and mediate our relationship to technology. Above all, they impact society’s abilities to regulate AI and navigate big tech’s political and economic maneuvers to achieve market dominance and regulatory capture. Foregrounding data politics with close readings of key films like Moneyball, Minority Report, The Social Dilemma, and Coded Bias, Gerald Sim reveals compelling ways in which films and tech industry–adjacent media define apprehension of AI. With the mid-2010s techlash in danger of fizzling out, Screening Big Data explores the relationship between this resistance and cultural infrastructure while highlighting the urgent need to refocus attention onto how technocentric media occupy the public imagination.

This book will interest students and scholars of film and media studies, digital culture, critical data studies, and technopolitics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sim, Gerald

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: How Cinema Maps the Algorithmic Imaginary  1. The Technopolitics of Big Data Documentaries  2. Moneyball: Data Platonism and Data Complaisance  3. Minority Report: A Missive from the Father of Ubiquitous Computing  Conclusion: Algorithmic Literacy and You

Über Autor(innen)

Gerald Sim is a professor of film and media studies and I-SENSE Ethics Fellow at Florida Atlantic University, USA. He is the author of The Subject of Film and Race: Retheorizing Politics, Ideology, and Cinema (2014) and Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability (2020).