Description
Book SynopsisDemocratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms' effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and self-reflection, data and measurement for the common good, public health and accessible datasets, activism in social media and the import/export of AI technologies relative to regime type.
Digital technologies develop at a much faster pace relative to our systems of governance which are supposed to embody democratic principles that are comparatively timeless, whether rooted in ancient Greek or Enlightenment ideas of freedom, autonomy and citizenship. Algorithms, computing millions of calculations per second, do not pause to reflect on their operations. Developments in the accumulation of vast private datasets that are used to train automated machine learning algorithms pose new challenges for upholding these values. Social media platforms, while the key driver of today's information disorder, also afford new opportunities f
Table of Contents
1. Algorithmic Knowledge and the Subversion of Subjectivity
2. Algorithms, Conventions and New Regulation Processes
3. From Big to Democratic Data: Why the Rise of AI Needs Data Solidarity
4. Democratic Possibilities of Digital Feminism: The Case of #IstanbulConventionSavesLives and #IstanbulSozlesmesi
5. Politics of Artificial Intelligence Adoption: Unpacking the Regime Type Debate
