{"product_id":"screening-big-data-films-that-shape-our-algorithmic-literacy-9780367774028","title":"Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gerald Sim\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Media Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the influence of key films on public understanding of big data and the algorithmic systems that structure our digitally mediated lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom star-powered blockbusters to civic-minded documentaries positioned to facilitate weighty debates about artificial intelligence, these texts frame our discourse and mediate our relationship to technology. Above all, they impact society's abilities to regulate AI and navigate big tech's political and economic maneuvers to achieve market dominance and regulatory capture. Foregrounding data politics with close readings of key films like \u003ci\u003eMoneyball\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMinority Report\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Social Dilemma\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCoded Bias\u003c\/i\u003e, Gerald Sim reveals compelling ways in which films and tech industry-adjacent media define apprehension of AI. With the mid-2010s techlash in danger of fizzling out, \u003ci\u003eScreening Big Data \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the relationship between this resistance and cultural infrastructure while highlighting the urgent need to refocus attention onto how technocentric media occupy the public imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will interest students and scholars of film and media studies, digital culture, critical data studies, and technopolitics. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45243276984471,"sku":"9780367774028","price":11730.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780367774028.webp?v=1769234208","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/screening-big-data-films-that-shape-our-algorithmic-literacy-9780367774028","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}