Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life - Hardcover

Timcke, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1529215315 ISBN 13: 9781529215311

Publisher: Bristol University Press, 2021

Synopsis

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As the US contends with issues of populism and de-democratization, this timely study considers the impacts of digital technologies on the country’s politics and society.

Timcke provides a Marxist analysis of the rise of digital media, social networks and technology giants like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. He looks at the impact of these new platforms and technologies on their users who have made them among the most valuable firms in the world.

Offering bold new thinking across data politics and digital and economic sociology, this is a powerful demonstration of how algorithms have come to shape everyday life and political legitimacy in the US and beyond.

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About the Author

Scott Timcke is Research Associate at the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. His research focuses on the transformations of race, class and technology during modernity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529215315
• ISBN 13: 9781529215311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 198