Screening Big Data

This book examines the influence of key films on public understanding of big data and the algorithmic systems that structure our digitally mediated lives.

Autorentext

Gerald Sim is a professor of film and media studies and I-SENSE Ethics Fellow at Florida Atlantic University, USA. He is the author of The Subject of Film and Race: Retheorizing Politics, Ideology, and Cinema (2014) and Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability (2020).

Inhalt

Introduction: How Cinema Maps the Algorithmic Imaginary 1. The Technopolitics of Big Data Documentaries 2. Moneyball: Data Platonism and Data Complaisance 3. Minority Report: A Missive from the Father of Ubiquitous Computing Conclusion: Algorithmic Literacy and You