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"Cet ouvrage est une invitation à entrer dans la boîte noire des algorithmes, non pas d'un point de vue technique, mais de sociologie politique. La multiplication des données disponibles en ligne, couplée au progrès de l'intelligence artificielle, ont-ils des effets sur les manières de gouverner ? Les algorithmes peuvent-ils "prédire" les comportements des citoyens ? Comment sont fabriqués ces algorithmes, dits prédictifs, et par qui ? Sont-ils neutres et objectifs ? Quels sont les enjeux sociaux, éthiques et politiques, liés à l'exploitation des données ? Et quelles sont les stratégies commerciales et marchandes à l'œuvre ? Peut-on encore protéger nos données ? Derrière l'exploitation des données, il y a bien des visions du monde. Il s'agit alors de penser l'algorithme comme un objet politique et social, produit par des acteurs et issu de commandes privées et désormais aussi publiques. Ces lignes de codes et de calculs complexes ne peuvent être dissociées de leurs conditions de production : elles sont encastrées dans un ensemble organisationnel et professionnel spécifique et portées par des intentions et volontés politiques. À travers une série d'études de cas et l'apport d'enquêtes empiriques poussées et inédites, ce volume permet de saisir en contexte comment sont utilisées nos données et quelles sont les influences possibles sur les modes de gouvernance et les prises de décision. La force de cet ouvrage, à la croisée de la sociologie économique, du droit, des sciences politiques et de l'informatique, est de poser les bases d'une sociologie politique des données et du numérique, visant à dépasser et déconstruire les mythes et les croyances véhiculées par le big data."--Page 4 of cover.
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Contains 35 contributions discussing current techniques in scientific visualization, which involves using computer-generated pictures to gain information and knowledge from data and relationships. Intended both as an overview for the inquiring scientist and as a foundation for developers, this book contains chapters dedicated to surveys and tutorials of specific topics, as well as previously unpublished work. Some recurring themes amongst the contributions are vector and tensor field visualizations; volume visualization, interactive steering and exploration;and large data sets and multiresolution techniques. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon - they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into our political and social system. Algorithms shape human behavior on various levels: they influence not only the aesthetic reception of the world but also the well-being and social interaction of their users. They act and intervene in a political and social context. As algorithms influence individual behavior in these social and political situations, their power should be the subject of critical discourse - or even lead to active disobedience and to the need for appropriate tools and methods which can be used to break the algorithmic power.
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"This book explores the cultural shift in society that promotes and relies on affectively charged technology relations. Bringing together relatable first-person accounts of what it means to experience algorithms emotionally alongside research developed across anthropology, sociology, media and communication studies, and science and technology studies, The Feel of Algorithms reveals how political-economic processes are felt in the everyday, as we learn about the digital geography of fear and the current lack of collective resources to build algorithmic systems. Minna Ruckenstein builds on the notion that everyday practices are not merely subject to algorithmic logic; rather, people actively respond to and live with data and algorithms, ranging from actual technical operations to their imagined effects. The pleasures, fears, and frustrations come together to produce a blueprint of how such systems should be combined with human aims and efforts. The narrated emotional reactions are not simply individual responses; they tell a more generalizable story of structures of feeling and related attempts to live well with algorithmic systems. The Feel of Algorithms demonstrates that human capacities and aims need active fostering in the algorithmic era. The structures of feeling aid in recognizing troubling practices, but they also call for alternatives that are currently ignored and suppressed"--
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Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon - they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into our political and social system. Algorithms shape human behavior on various levels: they influence not only the aesthetic reception of the world but also the well-being and social interaction of their users. They act and intervene in a political and social context. As algorithms influence individual behavior in these social and political situations, their power should be the subject of critical discourse - or even lead to active disobedience and to the need for appropriate tools and methods which can be used to break the algorithmic power.