Big Data and the Computable Society: Algorithms and People in the Digital World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781786346919)

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.

Author: Domenico Talia
ISBN-10: 1786346915
ISBN-13: 9781786346919
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2019
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d