Jean Burgess, Kath Albury, Anthony McCosker, and Rowan Wilken, Everyday Data Cultures, Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2022, 160 pp., $22.95 (paperback)
K. Bogdanova (TU Delft - Human Technology Relations)
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Abstract
Narratives about Big Data and AI (artificial intelligence) embedded themselves in the collective imaginary of the future—the future that is aspirational and desirable. These discourses are infused with technosolutionist and techno-optimistic argumentation, where digital transformation and technological intervention are seen as the most appropriate tools to address—if not “fix”— current social, economic, and environmental problems. As much as science and technology studies scholars attempt to popularize anti-deterministic framing, the myth of AI as a disembodied, ubiquitous, and autonomous actor, which shapes our present and future, prevails.
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