03519nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-62852-8 DE-He213 20251030113050.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240918s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031628528 978-3-031-62852-8 10.1007/978-3-031-62852-8 doi HM851 JFD bicssc SOC052000 bisacsh JBCT1 thema Carta, Silvio. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 84565 How Computers Create Social Structures [electronic resource] : Accidental Collectives / by Silvio Carta. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 113 p. 30 illus., 24 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda -- Chapter 1: Introduction - Human Geography, Information and Communication Technology and Digital Sociology. -- Chapter 2: The Role of Computers in the Generation of Social Groups. -- Chapter 3: Collectives, Technology, Online Apps and Social Networks. -- Chapter 4: Software, Automated Spatial Configurations and the Built Environment. -- Chapter 5: Data Ethics, Fairness and Bias. -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Future of Automatic and Accidental Collectives. This book introduces the idea of accidental collectives: the grouping of people that occurs as a by-product of the automated work of computers. Software has a growing influence in our lives automating and optimising mundane, time-consuming and repetitive tasks. In doing this, groups of people are automatically created as the result of classification and data analysis. Once grouped by the invisible agency of software, people interact and establish new relationships, generating new collectives and communities. With the support of case studies and real-life examples, this work explores the accidental nature of the generation of new social groups and questions the role of software in social interactions. Silvio Carta is an architect (ARB/RIBA), Chartered Building Engineer (MCABE) and Professor of Architecture at the University of Greenwich. He is the author of Big Data, Code and the Discrete City: Shaping Public Realms (2019) and Machine Learning and the City: Applications in Architecture and Urban Design (2022). Internet Social aspects. 59157 Interactive multimedia. 70509 Multimedia systems. 65569 Artificial intelligence Data processing. Science Social aspects. 69032 Internet Studies. 70888 Media Design. 70510 Data Science. Science and Technology Studies. 69033 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031628511 Printed edition: 9783031628535 Printed edition: 9783031628542 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62852-8 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 63493 63493