Description
| Product ID: | 9780367196837 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Automated Media |
| Authors: | Author: Mark Andrejevic |
| Page Count: | 172 |
| Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Communication studies, Cultural studies, Media studies, Sociology, Political structure and processes, Political campaigning and advertising, Communication studies, Cultural studies, Media studies, Sociology, Political structure & processes, Political campaigning & advertising |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In this era of pervasive automation, Mark Andrejevic provides an original framework for tracing the logical trajectory of automated media and their social, political, and cultural consequences. In this era of pervasive automation, Mark Andrejevic provides an original framework for tracing the logical trajectory of automated media and their social, political, and cultural consequences. This book explores the cascading logic of automation, which develops from the information collection process through to data processing and, finally, automated decision making. It argues that pervasive digital monitoring combines with algorithmic decision making and machine learning to create new forms of power and control that pose challenges to democratic forms of accountability and individual autonomy alike. Andrejevic provides an overview of the implications of these developments for the fate of human experience, describing the "bias of automation" through the logics of pre-emption, operationalism, and "framelessness." Automated Media is a fascinating and groundbreaking new volume: a must-read for students and researchers of critical media studies interested in the intersections of media, technology, and the digital economy. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-10-04 |
