Title The black box society : the secret algorithms that control money and information / Frank Pasquale

Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2015 Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2015

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Description 311 pages ; 25 cm Contents The need to know -- Digital reputation in an era of runaway data -- The hidden logics of search -- Finance's algorithms : the emperor's new codes -- Watching (and improving) the watchers -- Toward an intelligible society -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index Analysis Data mining Elites Financial institutions Government regulation Overseas item Privacy United States of America Notes Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Big data -- Social aspects. Computer algorithms. Elite (Social sciences) Knowledge, Theory of. Observation (Psychology) Power (Social sciences) LC no. 2014013480 ISBN 0674368274 9780674368279

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