00000nam a22000005i 4500 UP-1686042739784982756 Buklod 20240514100303.0 m | | | ta 240514s2022 enk r b|000 0|eng d 9781032051949 (hbk) 22261152 BC-74927 SERV Enterprises Php5,464.00 Prof. Willy Alangui OLC BAG rda eng QA 76.9 A43 F57 2022 Fisher, Eran author. Algorithms and subjectivity the subversion of critical knowledge Eran Fisher. Abingdon, Oxon, [England] Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group 2022 119 pages 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Routledge focus on digital media and culture Includes bibliographical references and index. "In this thought-provoking volume, Eran Fisher interrogates the relationship between algorithms as epistemic devices and modern notions of subjectivity. Over the past few decades, as the instrumentalization of algorithms has created knowledge that informs our decisions, preferences, tastes, and actions, and the very sense of who we are, they have also undercut, and arguably undermined, the Enlightenment-era ideal of the subject. Fisher finds that as algorithms enable a reality in which knowledge is created by circumventing the participation of the self, they also challenge contemporary notions of subjectivity. Through four case-studies, this book provides an empirical and theoretical investigation of this transformation, analysing how algorithmic knowledge differs from the ideas of critical knowledge which emerged during modernity - Fisher argues that algorithms create a new type of knowledge, which in turn changes our fundamental sense of self and our concept of subjectivity. This book will make a timely contribution to the social study of algorithms and will prove especially valuable for scholars working at the intersections of media and communication studies, internet studies, information studies, the sociology of technology, the philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies"--Provided by publisher. Computer algorithms Social aspects. Information technology. Technological innovations. Computer algorithms. Technology Social aspects. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN QA 76.9 A43 F57 2022 Book