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Revisiting the Black Box Society by rethinking the political economy of big data
Big Data & Society ( IF 6.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 , DOI: 10.1177/2053951720935146
Benedetta Brevini 1 , Frank Pasquale 2
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The Black Box Society was one of first scholarly accounts to propose a social theory of the use of data in constructing personal reputations, new media audiences, and financial power, by illuminating recurrent patterns of power and exploitation in the digital economy. While many corporations have a direct window into our lives through constant, ubiquitous data collection, our knowledge of their inner workings is often partial and incomplete. Closely guarded by private companies and inaccessible to most researchers or the broader public, too much algorithmic decision-making remains a black box to this day. Much has happened since 2015 that vindicates and challenges the book’s main themes. To answer many of the concerns raised in the volume in light of the most recent developments, we have brought together leading thinkers who have explored the interplay of politics, economics, and culture in domains ordered algorithmically by managers, bureaucrats, and technology workers. While the contributions are diverse, a unifying theme animates them. Each offers a sophisticated critique of the interplay between state and market forces in building or eroding the many layers of our common lives, as well as the privatization of spheres of reputation, search, and finance. Unsatisfied with narrow methodologies of economics or political science, they advance politico-economic analysis. They therefore succeed in unveiling the foundational role that the turn to big data has in organizing economic and social relations.

中文翻译:

通过重新思考大数据的政治经济学来重新审视黑匣子社会

黑匣子协会是最早提出使用数据构建个人声誉、新媒体受众和金融权力的社会理论的学术帐户之一,它阐明了数字经济中权力和剥削的反复出现的模式。虽然许多公司通过不断、无处不在的数据收集直接了解我们的生活,但我们对其内部运作的了解往往是片面和不完整的。由于受到私营公司的严密保护,大多数研究人员或更广泛的公众无法接触到,太多的算法决策直到今天仍然是一个黑匣子。自 2015 年以来,发生了很多事情,证明并挑战了本书的主要主题。根据最近的事态发展,回答本书中提出的许多问题,我们汇集了领先的思想家,他们探索了政治、经济和文化在由经理、官僚和技术工人按算法排序的领域中的相互作用。虽然贡献是多种多样的,但一个统一的主题使它们充满活力。每个人都对国家和市场力量在建立或侵蚀我们共同生活的许多层面以及声誉、搜索和金融领域的私有化方面的相互作用提出了复杂的批评。他们不满足于狭隘的经济学或政治学方法,而是推进政治经济分析。因此,他们成功地揭示了转向大数据在组织经济和社会关系方面的基础作用。虽然贡献是多种多样的,但一个统一的主题使它们充满活力。每个人都对国家和市场力量在建立或侵蚀我们共同生活的许多层面以及声誉、搜索和金融领域的私有化方面的相互作用提出了复杂的批评。他们不满足于狭隘的经济学或政治学方法,而是推进政治经济分析。因此,他们成功地揭示了转向大数据在组织经济和社会关系方面的基础作用。虽然贡献是多种多样的,但一个统一的主题使它们充满活力。每个人都对国家和市场力量在建立或侵蚀我们共同生活的许多层面以及声誉、搜索和金融领域的私有化方面的相互作用提出了复杂的批评。他们不满足于狭隘的经济学或政治学方法,而是推进政治经济分析。因此,他们成功地揭示了转向大数据在组织经济和社会关系方面的基础作用。他们不满足于狭隘的经济学或政治学方法,而是推进政治经济分析。因此,他们成功地揭示了转向大数据在组织经济和社会关系方面的基础作用。他们不满足于狭隘的经济学或政治学方法,而是推进政治经济分析。因此,他们成功地揭示了转向大数据在组织经济和社会关系方面的基础作用。
更新日期:2020-07-01
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