Big Data and the Computable Society

Data and algorithms are changing our life. The awareness of importance and pervasiveness of the digital revolution is the primary element from which to start a path of knowledge to grasp what is happening in the world of big data and digital innovation and to understand these impacts on our minds and relationships between people, traceability and the computability of behavior of individuals and social organizations.

This book analyses contemporary and future issues related to big data, algorithms, data analysis, artificial intelligence and the internet. It introduces and discusses relationships between digital technologies and power, the role of the pervasive algorithms in our life and the risk of technological alienation, the relationships between the use of big data, the privacy of citizens and the exercise of democracy, the techniques of artificial intelligence and their impact on the labor world, the Industry 4.0 at the time of the Internet of Things, social media, open data and public innovation.

Each chapter raises a set of questions and answers to help the reader to know the key issues in the enormous maze that the tools of info-communication have built around us.
Contents: PrefaceAbout the AuthorDigital Swarms and Apparent PowerAccountable Men and AlgorithmsConsciousness and Technological AlienationAnticipatory ShippingForgetting is More Difficult Than RememberingThe Hypermnesia of the NetworkDis-Education and Inverted RealityBeware of that Data!The Inventable Future and NetnographyThe Money with Which We Pay the WebThe Privacy and the ToasterWhen a Machine Learns TheologyData Brokers Know Us Without Being Our FriendsOpen Data and the Story of a Woman Who Knows Their MeaningThe Work of the Future and the Future of WorkA Strategy of Public InnovationSpied Democracy or Transparent Society?Digital Politics, Votes, and PollsThe Internet Information Model and the Weakness of Old MediaA Computable Society from Big Data AnajysisGetting Value from Mining Big DataWho is the Owner of Facebook Data?The Network Digs Inside UsAmazon Bracelet, Amazon Go and WorkersToward a New Cognitive ParadigmSurveillance and Digital PoliticsImagine or Govern Our Future?The Tristanian SyndromeToward a Possible Conclusion: Digital TwilightsIndex
Readership: Scholars in many fields: of computer science, artificial intelligence, Big Data analysis, social media, anthropology and social studies, digital democracy, internet computing.Big Data;Artificial Intelligence;Data Analysis;Digital Politics;Social Media;Open Data;Data Privacy00