Life and the law in the era of data-driven agency

Full Title:

Life and the law in the era of data-driven agency

Other Author:

Hildebrandt, Mireille
O'Hara, Kieron.

Statement of Responsibility:

Edited by Mireille Hildebrandt and Kieron O’Hara

Language:

English

Description:

296 p.

Summary:

This ground-breaking and timely book explores how big data, artificial intelligence and algorithms are creating new types of agency, and the impact that this is...

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This ground-breaking and timely book explores how big data, artificial intelligence and algorithms are creating new types of agency, and the impact that this is having on our lives and the rule of law. Addressing the issues in a thoughtful, cross-disciplinary manner, the authors examine the ways in which data-driven agency is transforming democratic practices and the meaning of individual choice. Leading scholars in law, philosophy, computer science and politics analyse the latest innovations in data science and machine learning, assessing the actual and potential implications of these technologies. They investigate how this affects our understanding of such concepts as agency, epistemology, justice, transparency and democracy, and advocate a precautionary approach that takes the effects of data-driven agency seriously without taking it for granted.

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Contents:

• Preface xii • 1. Introduction: Life and the law in the era of data-driven agency 1 • 2. Between the editors 16 • PART...

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• Preface xii • 1. Introduction: Life and the law in the era of data-driven agency 1 • 2. Between the editors 16 • PART I • 3. Data-driven agency and knowledge 45 • 4. The emergent limbic media system 60 • 5. Smart technologies and our sense of self: Going beyond epistemic counter-profiling 80 • 6. Rethinking transparency for the Internet of Things 100 m.c. schraefel, Richard Gomer, Enrico Gerding and • 7. From the digital to a post-digital era? 117 • PART II • 8. Do digital technologies put democracy in jeopardy? 135 • 9. In defence of ‘Toma’: Algorithmic enhancement of a sense of justice 156 • 10. The conservative reaction to data-driven agency 175 • 11. Artificial intelligence, affordances and fundamental rights 194 • 12. Throttling machine learning 214 • 13. In the hall of masks: Contrasting modes of personification 230 • RESPONSE • 14. Life and the law in the era of machine agency 253 • Index 265

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Publisher & Date:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2020.

Date of Publication:

2020

Publisher:

Edward Elgar

Classification:

A 47.4
A 20.2
A 86

ISBN:

9781788971997 (hbk)
9781802201659 (pbk)
9781788972000 (ebook)