Rettberg, Jill Walker

Machine vision : how algorithms are changing the way we see the world / Jill Walker Rettberg. - Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2023. - vii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-210) and index.

Introduction — Seeing More: Histories of Augmenting Human Vision — Seeing Differently: exploring non-Human Vision — Seeing Everything: Surveillance and the desire for Objectivity and Security — Being Seen: the Algorithmic Gaze — Seeing Less: the Blind Spots of Machine Vision — Conclusion: hope.

In this illuminating book, Jill Walker Rettberg examines the long history of machine vision. Providing an overview of the historical and contemporary uses of machine vision, she unpacks how technologies such as smart surveillance cameras and TikTok filters are changing the way we see the world and one another. By analysing fictional and real-world examples, including art, video games and science fiction, the book shows how machine vision can have very different cultural impacts, fostering both sympathy and community as well as anxiety and fear.

9781509545223

2022948740

GBC3D6010 bnb

021144091 Uk


Computer vision--History
Algorithms--Social aspects


History

TA1634 / .R484 2023