本书从社会学视角出发，探讨了智能机器、先进机器人、加速自动化、大数据和万物互联网是如何影响日常生活和当代社会的。作者就人工智能对工作和就业、社会关系、文化、身份、权力和未来等方面的影响做了全面论述，同时，对相关社会学理论观点进行了辩证性的介绍和评价。本书是对“人工智能文化”这个当代社会重要问题的批判式反思，其对社会学、科学和技术、政治和文化研究等广泛学科领域中工作的人来说，极具启发性。

"A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corners of global capitalism." --Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing From FSGO x Logic: stories about rural China, food, and tech that reveal new truths about the globalized world In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolerant. Instead, they find that rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we all use today. From pork farmers using AI to produce the perfect pig, to disruptive luxury counterfeits and the political intersections of e-commerce villages, Wang unravels the ties between globalization, technology, agriculture, and commerce in unprecedented fashion. Accompanied by humorous “Sinofuturist” recipes that frame meals as they transform under new technology, Blockchain Chicken Farm is an original and probing look into innovation, connectivity, and collaboration in the digitized rural world. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today.

Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have made our lives more efficient, more entertaining, and, sometimes, better informed. At the same time, complex algorithms are increasingly violating the basic rights of individual citizens. Allegedly anonymized datasets routinely leak our most sensitive personal information; statistical models for everything from mortgages to college admissions reflect racial and gender bias. Meanwhile, users manipulate algorithms to "game" search engines, spam filters, online reviewing services, and navigation apps. Understanding and improving the science behind the algorithms that run our lives is rapidly becoming one of the most pressing issues of this century. Traditional fixes, such as laws, regulations and watchdog groups, have proven woefully inadequate. Reporting from the cutting edge of scientific research, The Ethical Algorithm offers a new approach: a set of principled solutions based on the emerging and exciting science of socially aware algorithm design. Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth explain how we can better embed human principles into machine code - without halting the advance of data-driven scientific exploration. Weaving together innovative research with stories of citizens, scientists, and activists on the front lines, The Ethical Algorithm offers a compelling vision for a future, one in which we can better protect humans from the unintended impacts of algorithms while continuing to inspire wondrous advances in technology.

Behind-the-scenes stories of how Internet research projects actually get done. The realm of the digital offers both new methods of research and new objects of study. Because the digital environment for scholarship is constantly evolving, researchers must sometimes improvise, change their plans, and adapt. These details are often left out of research write-ups, leaving newcomers to the field frustrated when their approaches do not work as expected. Digital Research Confidential offers scholars a chance to learn from their fellow researchers' mistakes—and their successes. The book—a follow-up to Eszter Hargittai's widely read Research Confidential—presents behind-the-scenes, nuts-and-bolts stories of digital research projects, written by established and rising scholars. They discuss such challenges as archiving, Web crawling, crowdsourcing, and confidentiality. They do not shrink from specifics, describing such research hiccups as an ethnographic interview so emotionally draining that afterward the researcher retreated to a bathroom to cry, and the seemingly simple research question about Wikipedia that mushroomed into years of work on millions of data points. Digital Research Confidential will be an essential resource for scholars in every field.

八年前，“数学之美”系列文章原刊载于谷歌黑板报，获得上百万次点击，得到读者高度评价。读者说，读了“数学之美”，才发现大学时学的数学知识，比如马尔可夫链、矩阵计算，甚至余弦函数原来都如此亲切，并且栩栩如生，才发现自然语言和信息处理这么有趣。 在纸本书的创作中，作者几乎把所 有文章都重写了一遍，为的是把高深的数学原理讲得更加通俗易懂，让非专业读者也能领略数学的魅力。读者通过具体的例子学到的是思考问题的方式 —— 如何化繁为简，如何用数学去解决工程问题，如何跳出固有思维不断去思考创新。 本书第一版荣获国家图书馆第八届文津图书奖。第二版增加了针对大数据和机器学习的内容。第三版增加了三章新内容，分别介绍当今非常热门的三个主题：区块链的数学基础，量子通信的原理，以及人工智能的数学极限。

在这部纪录片中，数学教授马库斯·杜·索托伊揭示了算法的隐秘世界，历史长达 2000 年的算法到底是如何帮助人类解决问题的？

This handbook connects digital media technologies to the traditional sociological areas of study, like labour, culture, education, race, class and gender. It includes topics ranging from web analytics, wearable technologies, social media analysis and digital labour. This rigorous, accessible text explores contemporary dilemmas and problems of the digital age in relation to inequality, institutions and social identity, making it suitable for use for a global audience on a variety of social science courses and beyond.

In Digital Methods, Richard Rogers proposes a methodological outlook for social and cultural scholarly research on the Web that seeks to move Internet research beyond the study of online culture. It is not a toolkit for Internet research, or operating instructions for a software package; it deals with broader questions. How can we study social media to learn something about society rather than about social media use? How can hyperlinks reveal not just the value of a Web site but the politics of association? Rogers proposes repurposing Web-native techniques for research into cultural change and societal conditions. We can learn to reapply such "methods of the medium" as crawling and crowd sourcing, PageRank and similar algorithms, tag clouds and other visualizations; we can learn how they handle hits, likes, tags, date stamps, and other Web-native objects. By "thinking along" with devices and the objects they handle, digital research methods can follow the evolving methods of the medium. Rogers uses this new methodological outlook to examine the findings of inquiries into 9/11 search results, the recognition of climate change skeptics by climate-change-related Web sites, the events surrounding the Srebrenica massacre according to Dutch, Serbian, Bosnian, and Croatian Wikipedias, presidential candidates' social media "friends," and the censorship of the Iranian Web. With Digital Methods, Rogers introduces a new vision and method for Internet research and at the same time applies them to the Web's objects of study, from tiny particles (hyperlinks) to large masses (social media).

随着高科技日新月异的发展，数字革命如火如荼地进行，数据追踪以及在此基础上的决策机制已经成为治安管理、政治预测、市场营销、信用报告、企业管理、金融业务、公共项目管理甚至刑事判决惯常使用的工具。当我们生活在一个欢庆数字化时代时，本书作者尤班克斯却在追问，数字革命是否是一场由精英主导的游戏？普通人特别是贫困人口在数字时代的命运是什么？算法是否比人类更加中立、公正和明智？作者选取了三个故事：印第安纳州尝试用自动化程序挑选符合福利系统资格的申请者；洛杉矶对无家可归者采用电子登记方式；宾夕法尼亚州阿勒格尼县采取了一种很有风险的模式，预测哪些儿童将来可能成为被虐待或忽视的受害者。通过作者的调研，得到的结果令人惊讶，美国各地的贫困人口和工人阶层都已经成为新数字贫困管理工具的对象，算法的错误和有意排斥严重影响他们的生活质量，甚至危及其生存。算法的自动决策导致的数字歧视将让所有人处在数字济贫院而不自知。

New digital technologies have fostered much debate about the nature of social relationships, institutions and structures in a new information age. An amorphous and interdisciplinary field of research has emerged, concerning itself with the complexities and contradictions involved in the fundamental shifts and radical transformations which information and communication technologies (ICTs) are purportedly bringing about across cultural, political and economic practices. From cyberselves to cyber communities, from media wars to the digital divide, sociology confronts a new digital landscape. This text takes stock of how the discipline has addressed the challenge of the digital providing a uniquely sociological framework with which to critically re-evaluate fundamental social concerns: from digital intimacies and online relationships to new forms of mediated inequality and network structures, from digitally mediated media practices to education and health 2.0 , this text provides a comprehensive introduction to the transformations wrought by digital technologies to contemporary societies and a critical reflection on how the digital is reconfiguring the tools, concepts and precepts of the discipline.

In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic Keywords, the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology. Digital Keywords examines and critiques the rich lexicon animating the emerging field of digital studies. This collection broadens our understanding of how we talk about the modern world, particularly of the vocabulary at work in information technologies. Contributors scrutinize each keyword independently: for example, the recent pairing of digital and analog is separated, while classic terms such as community, culture, event, memory, and democracy are treated in light of their historical and intellectual importance. Metaphors of the cloud in cloud computing and the mirror in data mirroring combine with recent and radical uses of terms such as information, sharing, gaming, algorithm, and internet to reveal previously hidden insights into contemporary life. Bookended by a critical introduction and a list of over two hundred other digital keywords, these essays provide concise, compelling arguments about our current mediated condition. Digital Keywords delves into what language does in today's information revolution and why it matters.

《黑箱社会》内容简介：你是否想到，当你在上网娱乐、学习、浏览新闻或从事商业活动时，你就会无形中陷入一张数据采集的罗网，这张网的覆盖面之广你绝对难以想象。我们的经济和社会由高深莫测的数学程序来决定？ 美国参议院的一份调查报告指出，仅仅是点击某一热门新闻网站的动作就会触发并激活350多个网络服务器。多数的关联行为（例如投放广告）不大可能构成危害，但它们通常会在用户的电脑中植入一个“cookie”软件，用以识别和跟踪访客，从而收集目标数据并获知用户的上网习惯。 在这个互联网时代，每一天，各类公司都会通过仔细检索、审视我们的工作习惯和互联网的使用把我们各种行为的细节连接整合在一起。这种整合起来的数据极其详细，甚至堪称对我们个人的入侵。但这些公司是如何将这些数据点联系在一起的，他们又是如何使用这些信息的？《黑箱社会》将告诉我们这一切是如何发生的。 隐秘的算法可以塑造（或破坏）信誉，也可以决定企业家的命运，甚至是摧毁整个经济体。这本书深入探讨了Google、亚马逊、Facebook、苹果等硅谷和华尔街的公司是如何运用这些运算法则的，以及作为我们个人应该如何在这个信息经济社会保护我们的隐私，以及确保我们的个人信息安全。 在大数据、互联网时代，你可能需要的是个人成功秘诀、商业制胜之道，但你更需要的是一个清醒的头脑。