Automating inequality : how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor / Virginia Eubanks.
2018
KF3720 .E83 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Automating inequality : how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor / Virginia Eubanks.
Edition
First Edition.
Imprint
New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
Copyright
©2017.
Description
260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: red flags
From poorhouse to database
Automating eligibility in the heartland
High-tech homelessness in the City of Angels
The Allegheny algorithm
The digital poorhouse
Conclusion: dismantling the digital poorhouse
Acknowledgments
Sources and methods
Notes
Index.
From poorhouse to database
Automating eligibility in the heartland
High-tech homelessness in the City of Angels
The Allegheny algorithm
The digital poorhouse
Conclusion: dismantling the digital poorhouse
Acknowledgments
Sources and methods
Notes
Index.
Summary
"Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems - rather than humans - control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile"--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-251) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF3720 .E83 2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781250074317 hardcover
1250074312 hardcover
9781466885967 electronic book
1250074312 hardcover
9781466885967 electronic book
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