Benjamin Mistrust Issues

How Technology Discourses Quantify, Extract and Legitimize Inequalities
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3088-8
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

We are often expected to trust technologies, and how they are used, even if we have good reason not to. There is no room to mistrust.

Exploring relations between trust and mistrust in the context of data, AI and technology at large, this book defines a process of ‘trustification’ used by governments, corporations, researchers and the media to legitimize exploitation and increase inequalities.

Aimed at social scientists, computer scientists and public policy, the book aptly reveals how trust is operationalized and converted into a metric in order to extract legitimacy from populations and support the furthering of technology to manage society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benjamin, Garfield

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wissenschaftsethik, Technikethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Trust Issues

2. Trustification: Extracting Legitimacy

3. State: Measuring Authority

4. Corporate: Managing Risk

5. Research: Setting Terms

6. Media: Telling Stories

7. Case Study: COVID-19 Tracing Apps

8. Case Study: Tech for Good

9. Case Study: Trusting Faces

10. Conclusion: False Trade-Offs

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin, Garfield
Garfield Benjamin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Solent University, Southampton.

Garfield Benjamin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Solent University.