How Data Happened
Read by
Eric Jason Martin
Release:
03/21/2023
Release:
03/21/2023
Release:
03/21/2023
Runtime:
10h 27m
Runtime:
10h 27m
Runtime:
10h 27m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“Illuminates the contingency of data’s privileged place in modern decision-making. Incisive and thoroughly researched, this one’s a winner."
Publishers Weekly
A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world.
From facial recognition—capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform everything from who gets loans to who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to the development of Google search.
Expanding on the popular course they created at Columbia University, Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones illuminate the ways in which data has long been used as a tool and a weapon in arguing for what is true, as well as a means of rearranging or defending power. By understanding the trajectory of data—where it has been and where it might yet go—Wiggins and Jones argue that we can understand how to bend it to ends that we collectively choose, with intentionality and purpose.
From facial recognition—capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform everything from who gets loans to who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to the development of Google search.
Expanding on the popular course they created at Columbia University, Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones illuminate the ways in which data has long been used as a tool and a weapon in arguing for what is true, as well as a means of rearranging or defending power. By understanding the trajectory of data—where it has been and where it might yet go—Wiggins and Jones argue that we can understand how to bend it to ends that we collectively choose, with intentionality and purpose.
Release:
2023-03-21
2023-03-21
2023-03-21
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
10h 27m
10h 27m
10h 27m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.75 lb
0.5 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781696611015
9798212450171
9798212450164
Publisher:
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
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