Fourcade, Marion

The Ordinal Society

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ISBN 13:
9780674971141
author:
Fourcade, Marion
format:
Hardback
publisher:
Harvard University Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2024
Pages:
384
Dimensions:
21.2 x 14.2 x 3.2 centimetres (0
Genre:
Science, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Nonfiction,
Condition:
New
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£33.83

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A critique of how digital capitalism reformatting our world. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy argue that technologies of information management are transforming how we relate to ourselves and others through the market, public sphere, and state. The personal data we provide in exchange for convenient tools like Gmail and Instagram is used to make predictions about everything from purchasing power to character. These algorithmic predictions influence people's life chances and generate new forms of capital and social expectation. As a result, familiar structures of social advantage are recycled into measures of merit that produce insidious kinds of social inequality. The Ordinal Society explores how these developments lead to new forms of social competition and moral judgment, as we increasingly rely on ranking and measurement in our daily lives.

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