Everyday Automation by Pink, Sarah; Berg, Martin; Lupton, Deborah;

Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies

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Product details:

Edition number 1
Publisher Routledge
Date of Publication 10 May 2022

ISBN 9780367773403
Binding Hardback
No. of pages250 pages
Size 234x156 mm
Weight 453 g
Language English
Illustrations 20 Illustrations, black & white; 17 Halftones, black & white; 3 Line drawings, black & white

Short description:

An international team of leading scholars bring together research developed across anthropology, sociology, media and communication studies, and ethnology, which shows how by re-humanising automation, we can gain deeper understandings of its societal impacts.

Long description:

This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? What are their likely impacts in the present and future? How do engineers, policy makers, industry stakeholders and designers envisage artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) as solutions to individual and societal problems? How do these future visions compare with the everyday realities, power relations and social inequalities in which AI and ADM are experienced? What do people know about automation and what are their experiences of engaging with ‘actually existing’ AI and ADM technologies? An international team of leading scholars bring together research developed across anthropology, sociology, media and communication studies and ethnology, which shows how by rehumanising automation, we can gain deeper understandings of its societal impacts.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Introduction: Everyday Automation: setting a research agenda PART I: Challenging dominant narratives of automation 1. Imagining Mundane Automation: Historical Trajectories of Meaning Making around Technological Change 2. Trust, Ethics and Automation: Anticipatory Imaginaries in Everyday Life 3. The Quantified Pandemic: Digitised Surveillance, Containment and Care in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis 4. Less Work for Teacher? The Ironies of Automated Decision-making in Schools PART II Embedding automated systems in the everyday 5. Alexa’s Got a Hunch: The Human Decisions behind Programming Emotion-sensing and Caregiving into Digital Assistants 6. Framing Fashion: Human-Machine Learning and the Amazon Echo Look 7. Coffee with the Algorithm: Imaginaries, Maintenance and Care in the Everyday Life of a News-ranking Algorithm 8. Everyday AI at Work: Self-tracking and Automated Communication for Smart Work 9. Exploring ADM in Clinical Decision-Making: Healthcare Experts Encountering Digital Automation PART III Experimenting with Automation in Society 10. Hate it? Automate it!: Thinking and Doing Robotic Process Automation and Beyond 11. Smart Thermostats and the Algorithmic Control of Thermal Comfort 12. Prisoners Training AI: Ghosts, Humans and Values in Data Labour 13. Investigating ADM in Shared Mobility: A Design Ethnographic Approach 14. Ad Accountability Online: A Methodological Approach.

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