{"product_id":"algorithmic-intimacy-the-digital-revolution-in-personal-relationships-paperback-softback-9781509549818","title":"Algorithmic Intimacy; The Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509549818","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAlgorithmic Intimacy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnthony Elliott (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509549818, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 October 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e220 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm, 0.295 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Algorithms impact today all aspects of everyday life, and what is most personal in it. Anthony Elliott masterfully shows us what is at stake in this curve of digital life, where our intimate being-with-others is built and transformed.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMassimo Durante, University of Turin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Anthony Elliott offers intriguing insights into how the algorithms embedded in digital technologies contribute to people's closest relationships. Drawing on popular culture for examples, Elliott's lucid writing and expansive focus help the reader make sense of a rapidly evolving landscape of digitized love, sex and friendship.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Lupton, UNSW Sydney\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[This book] provides the reader with a distinctly critical understanding of how automation and prediction engage users in personal digital intimacy projects: working on the self, consuming digital relationships, optimizing the psyche... \u003ci\u003eAlgorithmic Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e is not a simple warning of a dystopian future of out-of-control machine intelligence. Instead, it is about the one-dimen-sionality of today's industrial AI products and their promises of simplicity and conformism in social relationships. It is therefore also an emphatic call to delve deeper into the multiple ways in which algorithms will shape the interior self, create new digital identities, and define our being-with-others.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScience and Technology Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Anthony Elliott's books on the social and cultural consequences of the development of artificial intelligence... form a comprehensive, multidimensional picture of the contemporary digital revolution.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDariusz Brzeziñski, \u003ci\u003eThesis Eleven\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAlgorithmic Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e is a wake-up call to consider our own and our children's responses to algorithmic intimacy, its reward-based enchantments, and the data webs it weaves.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Anthony Elliott's \u003ci\u003eAlgorithmic Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e presents a ground-breaking investigation...Effectively integrating insights from social and cultural theories concerning the digital revolution and seamlessly connecting them with a diverse array of empirical studies on the digitalisation of intimacy, Elliott offers a systematic sociological examination of the artificial dimension of intimate bonds...The book is characterised by its outstanding writing and is essential reading for a wide audience, including students, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers...Elliott's exceptional research has covered a breadth of topics and research in the exploration of the digitalisation of intimacy while maintaining a focus on its connections with politics, economy, and society.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInformation, Communication and Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAlgorithmic Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential work for those interested in understanding how algorithms shape our intimacy and our relationships in the digital world. Anthony Elliott offers a well-researched analysis, providing valuable guidance for understanding the challenges and opportunities that algorithmic intimacy presents in contemporary society... To his credit, Elliott manages to make complex topics accessible to a wide audience... The author strives to use clear language and avoid excessive academic jargon, allowing his message to reach readers effectively.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePublic Studies\/\u003cb\u003eEstudios Públicos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Brilliantly shows that algorithmic intimacy should be recognized as a theme of special significance that reflects broader shifts in contemporary AI-powered societies. The book will captivate researchers across various fields, including human-machine interactions, interpersonal communication, digital culture — particularly algorithmic culture and critical social theory. Additionally, it will serve as an insightful resource for general readers curious about the ways in which predictive algorithms and intimate bonds are interconnected and the impact of advanced machine intelligence on their day-to-day lives and personal relationships.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternational Journal of Communication\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"One of the virtues of Anthony Elliott's thought-provoking book, \u003ci\u003eAlgorithmic Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e, is its unconventional take on the world of digital communication, and its careful avoidance of moralism and hypocrisy.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmilio Mordini,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrometheus: Critical Studies in\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Innovation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While there is much research into the loss of jobs to AI and the dangers of AI surpassing human intelligence, this book is unique in that it tackles the impact of AI on the most intimate areas of human life: friendship, love, and happiness.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAyako Onzo, \u003ci\u003eThe Yomiuri Shimbun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us how to live, who to befriend and who to date.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAlgorithmic Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e, Anthony Elliott examines the power of predictive algorithms in reshaping personal relationships today. From Facebook friends and therapy chatbots to dating apps and quantified sex lives, Elliott explores how machine intelligence is working within us, amplifying our desires and steering our personal preferences. He argues that intimate relationships today are threatened not by the digital revolution as such, but by the orientation of various life strategies unthinkingly aligned with automated machine intelligence. Our reliance on algorithmic recommendations, he suggests, reflects a growing emergency in personal agency and human bonds. We need alternatives, innovation and experimentation for the interpersonal, intimate effort of ongoing translation back and forth between the discourses of human and machine intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAccessible and compelling, this book sheds fresh light on the impact of artificial intelligence on the most intimate aspects of our lives. It will appeal to students in the social sciences and humanities and to a wide range of general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 What is Algorithmic Intimacy?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Togetherness Transformed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 Relationship Tech\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Therapy Tech\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Friendship Tech\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Versions of Algorithmic Intimacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52458235887896,"sku":"9781509549818","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509549818.jpg?v=1785369987","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/algorithmic-intimacy-the-digital-revolution-in-personal-relationships-paperback-softback-9781509549818","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}