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The internet has altered how people engage with each other in myriad ways, including offering opportunities for people to act distrustfully. This fascinating set of essays explores the question of trust in computing from technical, socio-philosophical, and design perspectives. Why has the identity of the human user been taken for granted in the design of the internet? What difficulties ensue when it is understood that security systems can never be perfect? What role does trust have in society in general? How is trust to be understood when trying to describe activities as part of a user requirement program? What questions of trust arise in a time when data analytics are meant to offer new insights into user behavior and when users are confronted with different sorts of digital entities? These questions and their answers are of paramount interest to computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers and designers confronting the problem of trust.

Computers --- Internet --- Trust --- Computer security --- Computer networks --- Information technology --- Social aspects --- Security measures --- Reliability --- Computers - Social aspects --- Internet - Social aspects --- Computer networks - Security measures --- Computer networks - Reliability --- Information technology - Social aspects --- Trust. --- Computer security. --- Social aspects. --- Security measures. --- Reliability.

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We depend on -- we believe in -- algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations -- the marriage vow, the shaman's curse -- do not merely describe the world but make it. Computation casts a cultural shadow that is shaped by this long tradition of magical thinking. In this book, Ed Finn considers how the algorithm -- in practical terms, a method for solving a problem -- has its roots not only in mathematical logic but also in cybernetics, philosophy, and magical thinking. Finn argues that the algorithm deploys concepts from the idealized space of computation in a messy reality, with unpredictable and sometimes fascinating results. Drawing on sources that range from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash to Diderot's Encyclopedie, from Adam Smith to the Star Trek computer, Finn explores the gap between theoretical ideas and pragmatic instructions. He examines the development of intelligent assistants like Siri, the rise of algorithmic aesthetics at Netflix, Ian Bogost's satiric Facebook game Cow Clicker, and the revolutionary economics of Bitcoin. He describes Google's goal of anticipating our questions, Uber's cartoon maps and black box accounting, and what Facebook tells us about programmable value, among other things.If we want to understand the gap between abstraction and messy reality, Finn argues, we need to build a model of algorithmic reading and scholarship that attends to process, spearheading a new experimental humanities.Bron : http://www.bol.com

Information technology --- Computers --- Algorithms --- Algorithmes --- Ordinateurs --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- Algorism --- Algebra --- Arithmetic --- Foundations --- Aspect social. --- Algoritmi. --- Elaboratori elettronici - Aspetti sociali. --- Informatica - Aspetti sociali. --- Tecnologia - Aspetti sociali. --- Algoritmen --- Data --- Informatica --- Informatietechnologie --- Creativiteit --- Social aspects --- Algoritme --- IT --- Musiceren --- Information technology - Social aspects --- Computers - Social aspects --- Algorithms - Social aspects

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This book about America's romance with computer communication looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. Streeter demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention. In the 1950's they were imagined as the means for fighting nuclear wars, in the 1960's as systems for bringing mathematical certainty to the messy complexity of social life, in the 1970's as countercultural playgrounds, in the 1980's as an icon for what's good about free markets, in the 1990's as a new frontier to be conquered and, by the late 1990's, as the transcendence of markets in an anarchist open source utopia. The Net Effect teases out how culture has influenced the construction of the internet and how the structure of the internet has played a role in cultures of social and political thought. It argues that the internet's real and imagined anarchic qualities are not a product of the technology alone, but of the historical peculiarities of how it emerged and was embraced. Finding several different traditions at work in the development of the internet—most uniquely, romanticism—Streeter demonstrates how the creation of technology is shot through with profoundly cultural forces—with the deep weight of the remembered past, and the pressures of shared passions made articulate.

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"The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as "games about games," metagames implicate a diverse range of practices that stray outside the boundaries and bend the rules: from technical glitches and forbidden strategies to Renaissance painting, algorithmic trading, professional sports, and the War on Terror. In Metagaming, Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux demonstrate how games always extend beyond the screen, and how modders, mappers, streamers, spectators, analysts, and artists are changing the way we play. Metagaming uncovers these alternative histories of play by exploring the strange experiences and unexpected effects that emerge in, on, around, and through videogames. Players puzzle through the problems of perspectival rendering in Portal, perform clandestine acts of electronic espionage in EVE Online, compete and commentate in Korean StarCraft, and speedrun The Legend of Zelda in record times (with or without the use of vision). Companies like Valve attempt to capture the metagame through international e-sports and online marketplaces while the corporate history of Super Mario Bros. is undermined by the endless levels of Infinite Mario, the frustrating pranks of Asshole Mario, and even Super Mario Clouds, a ROM hack exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art. One of the only books to include original software alongside each chapter, Metagaming transforms videogames from packaged products into instruments, equipment, tools, and toys for intervening in the sensory and political economies of everyday life. And although videogames conflate the creativity, criticality, and craft of play with the act of consumption, we don't simply play videogames--we make metagames"--

Jeux vidéo. --- Jeux vidéo --- Video games --- Video games industry --- Aspect social. --- Design. --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General. --- GAMES / Video & Electronic. --- Video game industry --- Electronic games industry --- Video games - Social aspects --- Video games industry - Social aspects --- Video games - Design --- Jeu vidéo --- Jeu --- Art vidéo --- Informatique appliquée --- Informatique graphique --- Computer games industry --- Internet games industry --- Electronic industries --- Toy industry --- Computer games --- Design --- Jeux vidéo. --- Jeux vidéo

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"A multi-authored comprehensive introduction to live coding's potential open up deeper questions about contemporary cultural production and computational culture"--

Computer programming --- Philosophy --- Computers --- Electronic computer programming --- Electronic data processing --- Electronic digital computers --- Programming (Electronic computers) --- Coding theory --- Programming --- Agile software development. --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Algorithms --- Philosophy. --- Psychological aspects. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies --- COMPUTERS / Social Aspects --- ART / Digital --- Algorism --- Algebra --- Arithmetic --- Creative ability in art --- Creative ability in literature --- Art --- Imagination --- Inspiration --- Literature --- Creative ability --- Originality --- Agile development (Computer science) --- Agile methods (Computer science) --- Agile processes (Computer science) --- Computer software --- Foundations --- Development --- Agile software development --- Arts graphiques --- Art numérique --- Société numérique