Automated Media (Andrejevic Mark (Monash University Melbourne Australia))(Paperback / softback)

In this era of pervasive automation, Mark Andrejevic provides an original framework for tracing the logical trajectory of automated media and their social, political, and cultural consequences. This book explores the cascading logic of automation, which develops from the information collection process through to data processing and, finally, automated decision making. It argues that pervasive digital monitoring combines with algorithmic decision making and machine learning to create new forms of power and control that pose challenges to democratic forms of accountability and individual autonomy alike. Andrejevic provides an overview of the implications of these developments for the fate of human experience, describing the bias of automation through the logics of pre-emption, operationalism, and framelessness. Automated Media is a fascinating and groundbreaking new
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