Mistrust Issues: How Technology Discourses Quantify, Extract and Legitimize Inequalities - Hardcover

Benjamin, Garfield

 
9781529230871: Mistrust Issues: How Technology Discourses Quantify, Extract and Legitimize Inequalities
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 152923087X ISBN 13: 9781529230871
Publisher: Bristol University Press, 2023

Synopsis

We are often expected to trust technologies, and how they are used, even if we have good reason not to. There is no room to mistrust.

Exploring relations between trust and mistrust in the context of data, AI and technology at large, this book defines a process of ‘trustification’ used by governments, corporations, researchers and the media to legitimize exploitation and increase inequalities.

Aimed at social scientists, computer scientists and public policy, the book aptly reveals how trust is operationalized and converted into a metric in order to extract legitimacy from populations and support the furthering of technology to manage society.

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About the Author

Garfield Benjamin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Solent University, Southampton.

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Publisher
Bristol University Press
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
152923087X
ISBN 13 
9781529230871
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
186