Algorithmic life: calculative devices in the age of big data

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I Algorithmic life -- 1 The public and its algorithms: comparing and experimenting with calculated publics -- 2 The libraryness of calculative devices: artificially intelligent librarians and their impact on information consumption -- PART II Calculation in the age of big data -- 3 Experiencing a personalised augmented reality: users of Foursquare in urban space -- 4 A politics of redeployment: malleable technologies and the localisation of anticipatory calculation -- 5 Seeing the invisible algorithm: the practical politics of tracking the credit trackers -- PART III Signal, visualise, calculate -- 6 Bodies of information: data, distance and decision-making at the limits of the war prison -- 7 Data anxieties: objectivity and difference in early Vietnam War computing -- 8 'Seeing futures': politics of visuality and affect -- PART IV Affective devices -- 9 Love's algorithm: the perfect parts for my machine -- 10 Calculating obesity, pre-emptive power and the politics of futurity: the case of Change4Life -- Index.