Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As the US contends with issues of populism and de-democratization, this timely study considers the impacts of digital technologies on the country’s politics and society.

Timcke provides a Marxist analysis of the rise of digital media, social networks and technology giants like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. He looks at the impact of these new platforms and technologies on their users who have made them among the most valuable firms in the world.

Offering bold new thinking across data politics and digital and economic sociology, this is a powerful demonstration of how algorithms have come to shape everyday life and political legitimacy in the US and beyond.

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Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As the US contends with issues of populism and de-democratization, this timely study considers the impacts of digital technologies on the country’s politics and society.

Timcke provides a Marxist analysis of the rise of digital media, social networks and technology giants like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. He looks at the impact of these new platforms and technologies on their users who have made them among the most valuable firms in the world.

Offering bold new thinking across data politics and digital and economic sociology, this is a powerful demonstration of how algorithms have come to shape everyday life and political legitimacy in the US and beyond.

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Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life

Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life

by Scott Timcke
Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life

Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life

by Scott Timcke

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As the US contends with issues of populism and de-democratization, this timely study considers the impacts of digital technologies on the country’s politics and society.

Timcke provides a Marxist analysis of the rise of digital media, social networks and technology giants like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. He looks at the impact of these new platforms and technologies on their users who have made them among the most valuable firms in the world.

Offering bold new thinking across data politics and digital and economic sociology, this is a powerful demonstration of how algorithms have come to shape everyday life and political legitimacy in the US and beyond.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781529215311
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication date: 02/15/2021
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 198
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Scott Timcke studies the politics of race, class, and social inequality as they are mediated by digital infrastructures.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Great Simplification

Algorithms and The Critical Theory of Technology

The One Dimensionality of Data

Reactionary Tendencies in the Ruling Class

Platforms of Power

The Whiteness of Communication Studies

Misinformation and Ideology

Testbeds for Authoritarianism

Conclusion: The Fatal Abstractions of Capitalist Rule

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From the Publisher

"This provocative and illuminating book shows how digital technologies impose capitalism upon every facet of our lives and undermine democracy. An important critique that I highly recommend.” Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania

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