Discriminating Data (Paperback)

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Published by MIT Press Ltd, 2024

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Paperback. How big data and machine learning encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage.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. "Chun investigates the centrality of race, gender, class, and sexuality to "Big Data" and network analytics"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title
Discriminating Data (Paperback)
Author
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Publication year
2024
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
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0262548526
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9780262548526
Illustrator
Barnett, Alex

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