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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262367264
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 November 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14050.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262367264
How big data and machine learning encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage. In Discriminating Data , Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation, which grounds big data's predictive potential, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition. Machine learning and data analytics thus seek to disrupt the future by making disruption impossible. Chun, who has a background in systems design engineering as well as media studies and cultural theory, explains that although machine learning algorithms may not officially include race as a category, they embed whiteness as a default. Facial recognition technology, for example, relies on the faces of Hollywood celebrities and university undergraduates—groups not famous for their diversity. Homophily emerged as a concept to describe white U.S. resident attitudes to living in biracial yet segregated public housing. Predictive policing technology deploys models trained on studies of predominantly underserved neighborhoods. Trained on selected and often discriminatory or dirty data, these algorithms are only validated if they mirror this data. How can we release ourselves from the vice-like grip of discriminatory data? Chun calls for alternative algorithms, defaults, and interdisciplinary coalitions in order to desegregate networks and foster a more democratic big data.
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 02 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12236.003.0046
EISBN: 9780262361286
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 May 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10483.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262333771
What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual—when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving. New media—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. Meanwhile, analytic, creative, and commercial efforts focus exclusively on the next big thing: figuring out what will spread and who will spread it the fastest. But what do we miss in this constant push to the future? In Updating to Remain the Same , Wendy Hui Kyong Chun suggests another approach, arguing that our media matter most when they seem not to matter at all—when they have moved from “new” to habitual. Smart phones, for example, no longer amaze, but they increasingly structure and monitor our lives. Through habits, Chun says, new media become embedded in our lives—indeed, we become our machines: we stream, update, capture, upload, link, save, trash, and troll. Chun links habits to the rise of networks as the defining concept of our era. Networks have been central to the emergence of neoliberalism, replacing “society” with groupings of individuals and connectable “YOUS.” (For isn't “new media” actually “NYOU media”?) Habit is central to the inversion of privacy and publicity that drives neoliberalism and networks. Why do we view our networked devices as “personal” when they are so chatty and promiscuous? What would happen, Chun asks, if, rather than pushing for privacy that is no privacy, we demanded public rights—the right to be exposed, to take risks and to be in public and not be attacked?