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This SAGE Handbook brings together cutting edge social scientific research and theoretical insight into the emerging contours of digital society. Chapters explore the relationship between digitisation, social organisation and social transformation at both the macro and micro level, making this a valuable resource for postgraduate students and academics conducting research across the social sciences. The topics covered are impressively far-ranging and timely, including machine learning, social media, surveillance, misinformation, digital labour, and beyond. This innovative Handbook perfectly captures the state of the art of a field which is rapidly gaining cross-disciplinary interest and global importance, and establishes a thematic framework for future teaching and research. Part 1: Theorising Digital Societies; Part 2: Researching Digital Societies; Part 3: Sociotechnical Systems and Disruptive Technologies in Action; Part 4: Digital Society and New Social Dilemmas; Part 5: Governance and Regulation; and Part 6: Digital Futures.
Governing Through Infrastructural Control: Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing in the Data-intensive State
Governing Through Infrastructural Control: Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing in the Data-intensive State
Introduction
Digital data have become integral to the ways societies, institutions and citizens are monitored, understood and governed. Numerical information has played a long historical role in how states and governments monitor and manage their territories and citizens (Foucault, 2007). The twentieth-century rise of computing technologies, the Internet and data science has opened up the task of governing to more diverse actors and new modes of quantification, manipulation and control in the twenty-first century (Edwards et al., 2009). Since around 2010, attention has turned to the expanding governance capacities of computation and ‘big data’ ...
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