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We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves

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What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we will resist it
 
Algorithms are all over, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms resolve the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not only form knowledge and social relationships in the digital and physical world, but also resolve who we are and who we will be, both on and offline. 
 
Algorithms create and recreate us, the use of our data to assign and reassign our gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship status. They are able to recognize us as celebrities or mark us as terrorists. In this era of ubiquitous surveillance, recent data collection entails more than gathering information about us. Entities like Google, Facebook, and the NSA also come to a decision what that information means, constructing our worlds and the identities we inhabit in the process. We have little keep an eye on over who we algorithmically are. Our identities are made useful not for us—but for someone else. 
 
Through a series of entertaining and engaging examples, John Cheney-Lippold draws on the social constructions of identity to advance a new understanding of our algorithmic identities. We Are Data will educate and inspire readers who need to wrest back some freedom in our an increasing number of surveilled and algorithmically-constructed world. 
 
 

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