Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Hardcover)

Introduction IX
1 Artificial Communication? Algorithms as Interaction Partners 1
2 Organizing without Understanding: Lists in Ancient and Digital Cultures 19
3 Reading Images: Visualization and Interpretation in Digital Text Analysis 31
4 Getting Personal with Algorithms 47
5 Algorithmic Memory and the Right to be Forgotten 65
6 Forgetting Pictures 79
7 The Future of Prediction: From Statistical Uncertainty to Algorithmic Forecasts 87
Conclusion 107
Acknowledgments 113
Notes 115
Bibliography 147
Index 181