03278nam a22005055i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001000172072001600182072002300198072001700221100008300238245011200321250001800433264008500451300006400536336002600600337002600626338003600652347002400688505047200712520102901184650003702213650003502250650003102285650004602316650003602362650002902398650002502427650001802452650004302470710003402513773002602547776003602573776003602609776003602645856004602681912001402727912001402741999001702755978-3-031-62852-8DE-He21320251030113050.0cr nn 008mamaa240918s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316285289978-3-031-62852-87 a10.1007/978-3-031-62852-82doi 4aHM851 7aJFD2bicssc 7aSOC0520002bisacsh 7aJBCT12thema1 aCarta, Silvio.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98456510aHow Computers Create Social Structuresh[electronic resource] :bAccidental Collectives /cby Silvio Carta.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXV, 113 p. 30 illus., 24 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a -- 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.  aThis 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). 0aInternetxSocial aspects.959157 0aInteractive multimedia.970509 0aMultimedia systems.965569 0aArtificial intelligencexData processing. 0aSciencexSocial aspects.96903214aInternet Studies.97088824aMedia Design.97051024aData Science.24aScience and Technology Studies.9690332 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303162851108iPrinted edition:z978303162853508iPrinted edition:z978303162854240uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62852-8  aZDB-2-LCM  aZDB-2-SXL  c63493d63493