Outnumbered : from Facebook and Google to fake news and filter-bubbles--the algorithms that control our lives /

Outnumbered : from Facebook and Google to fake news and filter-bubbles--the algorithms that control our lives / David Sumpter.

"Algorithms are running our society, and we don't really know what they are up to. Our increasing reliance on technology and the internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we...

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Main Author: Sumpter, David, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018.
Subjects:
Internet > Mathematical models > Social aspects.
Internet marketing > Mathematical models > Social aspects.
Internet advertising > Mathematical models > Social aspects.
Social media > Mathematical models > Social aspects.
Fake news > Mathematical models > Social aspects.
Mathematical models > Social aspects.
Human behavior > Mathematical models.
Algorithms > Social aspects.
Social indicators > Mathematical models.
Big data > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • part 1. Analysing us: Finding Banksy ; Make some noise ; The principal components of friendship ; One hundred dimensions of you ; Cambridge hyperbolytica ; Impossibly unbiased ; The data alchemists
  • part 2. Influencing us: Nate Silver vs the rest of us ; We "also liked" the internet ; The popularity contest ; Bubbling up ; Football matters ; Who reads fake news?
  • part 3. Becoming us: Learning to be sexist ; The only thought between the decimal ; Kick your ass at "Space invaders"
  • The bacterial brain
  • Back to reality.

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